"You must purge the evil from among you" seems to be a theme I am picking up on in Deuteronomy. I did a search on it on biblegateway.com and it found that phrase seven times - all in Deuteronomy. Here are the evils to be purged:
13:5 False prophet, someone who tries to turn Israel from the Lord
17:7 Worshipping other gods
19:19 Someone who testifies falsely (in this one not death, whatever bad he intended against the one he testified falsely against)
21:21 A rebellious son
22:21 A bride who is found not to be a virgin
22:24 A man sleeping with another man's wife - both are put to death
24:7 Someone who kidnaps as a slave or to be sold
There are other things where the Lord demands that they are to be stoned to death, but these are all the cases where he adds that they are doing so to purge the evil from among them.
This just points out to me God's holiness and his intolerance of sin. I am thankful for a risen Savior who washes our sins and paid the penalty.
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