Deuteronomy 17:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ 1 According to his law; and thou shalt follow their sentence: neither shalt thou decline to the right hand nor to the left hand.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ On the evidence of two or three witnesses he who is worthy of death shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

Common English Bible

⁶ Capital punishment must be decided by two or three witnesses. No one may be executed on the basis of only one testimony.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ By the mouth of two or three witnesses, he who is to be put to death shall perish. Let no one be killed with only one person speaking testimony against him.

Deuteronomy 17:6 Cross References

Numbers 35:30

And the princes of the families of Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses, of the stock Of the children of Joseph, came and spoke to Moses before the princes of Israel, and said:

Matthew 18:16

4 And when he had begun to take the account, one was brought to him, that owed him ten thousand talents.

John 7:51

And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But Jesus bowing himself down, wrote with his finger on the ground.

2 Corinthians 13:1

0 Therefore I write these things, being absent, that, being present, I may not deal more severely, according to the power which the Lord hath given me unto edification, and not unto destruction.

Deuteronomy 19:15

0 That others hearing may fear, and may not dare to do such things.

1 Timothy 5:19

If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to that doctrine which is according to godliness,

Hebrews 10:28

7 For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come, will come, and will not delay.