⁴ If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;

¹² And if word comes to you, in one of the towns which the Lord your God is giving you for your resting-place,

¹³ That good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among you, turning the people of their town from the right way and saying, Let us go and give worship to other gods, of whom you have no knowledge;

¹⁴ Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;

¹⁸ And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother,

⁵¹ Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?

² It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.