Numbers 35:30 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³⁰ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ 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

³⁰ 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)

³⁰ 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

³⁰ 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

³⁰ 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

³⁰ The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man.

Numbers 35:30 Cross References

Exodus 21:12

He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 24:17

And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death;

Numbers 35:16

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.

Numbers 35:31

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.

Matthew 18:16

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.

John 7:51

Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?

2 Corinthians 13:1

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

Deuteronomy 19:15

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.

Deuteronomy 27:24

Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour in secret. And all the people shall say, Amen.

1 Timothy 5:19

Against an elder receive not an accusation, except at the mouth of two or three witnesses.

Hebrews 10:28

A man that hath set at nought Moses' law dieth without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses:

Revelation 11:3

And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.