Verse 7

The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 13:9 : 9 Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.
• Deut 13:5 : 5 As for that prophet or dreamer, he must be executed because he encouraged rebellion against the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, redeeming you from that place of slavery, and because he has tried to entice you from the way the LORD your God has commanded you to go. In this way you must purge out evil from within.
• 1 Cor 5:13 : 13 But God will judge those outside. Remove the evil person from among you.
• Deut 17:12 : 12 The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the LORD your God there, or to the judge– that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.
• Deut 19:19 : 19 you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
• Deut 24:7 : 7 If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
• Judg 20:13 : 13 Now, hand over the good-for-nothings in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.” But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.
• Acts 7:58-59 : 58 When they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 They continued to stone Stephen while he prayed,“Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”