Deuteronomy 17:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ and it is told you and you hear of it; then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abominable thing has been done in Israel,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ and it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And it is told and you hear of it, then inquire diligently. And if it is certainly true that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ and it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it; then shalt thou inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,

Common English Bible

⁴ and you hear news about it, then you must look into this situation very carefully. And if it’s definitely true that this detestable thing was done in Israel,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ and when this will have been reported to you, and, upon hearing it, if you have inquired diligently and have found it to be true, that the abomination is being done in Israel:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And this is told thee, and hearing it thou hast inquired diligently, and found it to be true, and that the abomination is committed in Israel:

Deuteronomy 17:4 Cross References

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.

John 7:51

“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”

Deuteronomy 13:15

you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, destroying it utterly, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.

Deuteronomy 17:3

and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden,

Deuteronomy 17:5

then you shall bring forth to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones.

Deuteronomy 19:18

the judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,

Deuteronomy 22:20

But if the thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young woman,