As you move forward for battle, the priest will approach and say to the soldiers,

The priest will then take the basket from you and set it before the altar of the Lord your God.

The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

You must go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, “I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord promised to our ancestors to give us.”