and if it is reported and you hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report is true and such an abomination has happened in Israel,
The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,
“Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”
If, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.