‘A man who has set at naught Moses law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses,'
The connection with sin with a high hand comes out here. They were the sins that ‘set at naught the Law of Moses'. It was only for such sins that the immediate death penalty was required. But when men did commit such a sin there was to be no compassion. All fellow feeling between them and the whole people was to be lost. Immediate death was called for. The community would carry out the sentence. Such sinners were to be cut off from the people. However such could only be carried out where there were valid witnesses. Justice had to be maintained.