Deuteronomy 19:19
19you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge ▼▼tn Heb “you will burn out” (
בִּעַרְתָּ,
biʿarta). 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).
the evil from among you.