1. You must not sacrifice to the Lord your God any bull or sheep that has a blemish or any defect, for that is detestable to the Lord your God.
2. If there be found among you, within any of your gates which the Lord your God gives you, man or woman, who has acted wickedly in the sight of the Lord your God, by transgressing His covenant,
3. and has gone and served other gods and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,
4. and if it is told to you, and you have heard of it, and investigated diligently, and it is true, and the matter is certain that such a detestable thing has happened in Israel,
5. then you must bring forth that man or that woman who has committed that wicked thing to your gates, that very man or woman, and stone them with stones until they die.
6. On the testimony of two or three witnesses he that is to die must be put to death, but on the testimony of one witness he cannot be put to death.
7. The hands of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from among you.
8. If there arises a matter too difficult for you in judgment, between one kind of bloodshed and another, between one kind of lawsuitand another, and between one kind of assault and another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you must arise and go up to the place where the Lord your God shall choose.
9. You must go to the Levitical priests or to the judge in office those days, and inquire, and they will show you the verdict of judgment.
10. You shall do according to the verdict which they declare to you from the place where the Lord will choose to show you, and you must be careful to do all that they instruct you to do.