Deuteronomy 12:8

12:8 You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone ¹  doing what seems best to him,

Deuteronomy 19:19

19:19 you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge ²  evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 25:16

25:16 For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent ³  to the Lord your God.

[12:8]  ¹ tn Heb “a man.”

[19:19]  ² tn Heb “you will burn out” (בִּעַרְתָּ, bi’arta). Like a cancer, unavenged sin would infect the whole community. It must, therefore, be excised by the purging out of its perpetrators who, presumably, remained unrepentant (cf. Deut 13:6; 17:7, 12; 21:21; 22:21-22, 24; 24:7).

[25:16]  ³ tn The Hebrew term translated here “abhorrent” (תּוֹעֵבָה, to’evah) speaks of attitudes and/or behaviors so vile as to be reprehensible to a holy God. See note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.