and if it is reported to you or you hear of it, and you make a thorough inquiry, and the charge is proved true that such an abhorrent thing has occurred in Israel,
It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.
“Our law does not judge people without first giving them a hearing to find out what they are doing, does it?”
you shall put the inhabitants of that town to the sword, utterly destroying it and everything in it, even putting its livestock to the sword.
by going to serve other gods and worshiping them—whether the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden—
then you shall bring out to your gates that man or that woman who has committed this crime, and you shall stone the man or woman to death.
and the judges shall make a thorough inquiry. If the witness is a false witness, having testified falsely against another,
“If, however, this charge is true, that evidence of the young woman’s virginity was not found,