Deuteronomy 17:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

The hands of the witnesses shall be the first to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put the evil away from among you.

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  • Deut 13:9 : 9 But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
  • Deut 13:5 : 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he has spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to push you out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from among you.
  • 1 Cor 5:13 : 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
  • Deut 17:12 : 12 The man who acts presumptuously and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall put away the evil from Israel.
  • Deut 19:19 : 19 Then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you.
  • Deut 24:7 : 7 If a man is found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and makes merchandise of him, or sells him; then that thief shall die; and you shall put away the evil from among you.
  • Judg 20:13 : 13 Now therefore deliver up the men, the worthless fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and remove evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not listen to their brothers, the children of Israel.
  • Acts 7:58-59 : 58 And cast him out of the city and stoned him, and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen as he called on God and said, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 13:8-11
    4 verses
    86%

    8You shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare him, neither shall you conceal him:

    9But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

    10And you shall stone him with stones, that he die; because he has sought to push you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

    11And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this among you.

  • Deut 17:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

    4and it is told to you, and you have heard of it and diligently inquired, and indeed it is true and certain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,

    5then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed this wicked thing, and shall stone them with stones until they die.

    6At the testimony of two or three witnesses, he who is worthy of death shall be put to death; but he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

  • Deut 19:15-21
    7 verses
    79%

    15One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established.

    16If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing;

    17Then both men in the controversy shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who serve in that time;

    18And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness who has testified falsely against his brother;

    19Then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

    20And those who remain shall hear and fear, and shall no longer commit any such evil among you.

    21Your eye shall not pity; but life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Num 35:30-31
    2 verses
    78%

    30Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the testimony of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

    31Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death: but he shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 21:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he may die: so shall you put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear and fear.

    22And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

  • Deut 19:12-13
    2 verses
    77%

    12Then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

    13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

  • Lev 24:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16And he who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the stranger as well as the one born in the land, when he blasphemes the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.

    17And he who kills any man shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 17:12
    75%

    12The man who acts presumptuously and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall put away the evil from Israel.

  • Exod 21:12
    73%

    12He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

  • Num 35:21
    73%

    21Or in enmity strikes him with his hand, so that he dies, he who struck him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meets him.

  • Deut 13:5
    73%

    5And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he has spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to push you out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from among you.

  • Num 15:35-36
    2 verses
    73%

    35And the LORD said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.

    36And all the congregation brought him outside the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Num 35:16-19
    4 verses
    73%

    16And if he strikes him with an iron instrument, so that he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    17And if he strikes him with throwing a stone, by which he may die, and he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    18Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon, by which he may die, and he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    19The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meets him, he shall slay him.

  • Deut 17:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8If a matter arises that is too hard for you to judge, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of dispute within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses,

    9and you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who is in office in those days, and inquire, and they shall declare to you the verdict of the judgment.

  • Deut 21:6
    72%

    6And all the elders of that city, that are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley,

  • Lev 24:14
    72%

    14Bring forth him who has cursed outside the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

  • Deut 17:2
    72%

    2If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who has done wickedness in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant,

  • Deut 22:24
    72%

    24Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they die; the young woman because she did not cry out, being in the city; and the man because he has humbled his neighbor's wife; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

  • Lev 20:10
    72%

    10And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 24:7
    72%

    7If a man is found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and makes merchandise of him, or sells him; then that thief shall die; and you shall put away the evil from among you.

  • Num 35:24
    72%

    24Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments:

  • Deut 21:9
    72%

    9So shall you put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

  • Lev 20:27
    72%

    27A man or woman who has a familiar spirit, or who is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.

  • Deut 22:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21Then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house. So shall you put away the evil from among you.

    22If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall put away evil from Israel.

  • Deut 19:10
    71%

    10That innocent blood may not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and thus blood guilt be upon you.

  • Exod 21:14
    71%

    14But if a man acts presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him with guile, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

  • 2 Chr 15:13
    71%

    13That whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

  • Deut 21:2
    71%

    2Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him that is slain;

  • Exod 23:1
    70%

    1You shall not spread a false report; do not join hands with the wicked to be a dishonest witness.