Numbers 35:30
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If 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.”
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“If 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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Whoso 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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“whoso smiteth a person, by the mouth of witnesses doth <FI>one<Fi> slay the murderer; and one witness doth not testify against a person--to die.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 35:30 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 21:12Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:16If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 17:6On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness.
- Deuteronomy 19:15A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
- Matthew 18:16But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’
- John 7:51“Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”
- John 8:17Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
- 2 Corinthians 13:1This is the third time I am coming to you. “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”
- 1 Timothy 5:19Do not entertain an accusation against an elder, except on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
- Hebrews 10:28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
- Revelation 11:3And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
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