Numbers 35:30

WEB

³⁰“‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain based on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify alone against any person so that he dies.

KJV

³⁰Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

BSB

³⁰If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.

FBV

³⁰If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be executed based on the evidence given by witnesses, plural. No one is to be executed based on the evidence given by a single witness.

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Extra References

Hebrews 10:28

²⁸A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

Matthew 18:16

¹⁶But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

Deuteronomy 19:15

¹⁵One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

2 Corinthians 13:1

¹This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”

1 Timothy 5:19

¹⁹Don’t receive an accusation against an elder except at the word of two or three witnesses.

John 8:17-18

¹⁷It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.¹⁸I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

Numbers 35:16

¹⁶“‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

John 7:51

⁵¹“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”

Revelation 11:3

³I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

⁶At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. ⁷The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.