If someone has told you about it, you must look into the matter carefully. If it is true that such a hateful thing has happened in Israel,
God is honored for what he keeps secret. Kings are honored for what they can discover.
“Our law does not judge a person without hearing him and knowing what he has done.”
you must kill with a sword everyone who lives in that city. Destroy the city completely and kill everyone in it, as well as the animals, with a sword.
That person may have served other gods and bowed down to them or to the sun or moon or stars of the sky, which I have commanded should not be done.
take the man or woman who has done the evil thing to the city gates and throw stones at that person until he dies.
The judges must check the matter carefully. The witness who is a liar, lying about a fellow Israelite,
But if the things the husband said about his wife are true, and there is no proof that she was a virgin,