Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done among you;
Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;
You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it completely, and all that is in it, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
And it be told you, and you have heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel: