Numbers 35:30 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Whoso killeth any person, the manslayer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Whoever kills any person [intentionally], the murderer shall be put to death on the testimony of witnesses; but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Anyone who kills another will be executed on the evidence of witnesses. But one witness alone cannot testify against a person for a death sentence. Catholic Public Domain Version The punishment of a murderer shall be based upon testimony; but no one shall be condemned upon the testimony of only one person. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man. |
But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a manslayer: the manslayer shall surely be put to death.
Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a manslayer, which is guilty of death: but he shall surely be put to death.
But if he hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established.
Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?
This is the third time I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word be established.
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour in secret. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Against an elder receive not an accusation, except at the mouth of two or three witnesses.
A man that hath set at nought Moses' law dieth without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses:
And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.