Numbers 35:30 - The Scriptures 1998

³⁰ ‘Whoever kills someone has to be put to death as a murderer by the mouth of witnesses, but only one witness does not bear witness against someone to 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.

Numbers 35:30 Cross References

Exodus 21:12

“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall certainly be put to death.

Leviticus 24:17

‘And he who smites the life from any man shall certainly be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

‘But if he has smitten him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall certainly be put to death.

Numbers 35:31

‘And take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall certainly be put to death.

Matthew 18:16

“But if he does not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word might be established.’

John 7:51

“Does our Torah judge the man unless it hears first from him and knows what he is doing?”

2 Corinthians 13:1

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

Deuteronomy 19:15

“One witness does not rise up against a man concerning any crookedness or any sin that he commits. At the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses a matter is established.

Deuteronomy 27:24

‘Cursed is he who smites his neighbour secretly.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amĕ

1 Timothy 5:19

Do not receive an accusation against an elder except from two or three witnesses.

Hebrews 10:28

Anyone who has disregarded the Torah of Mosheh dies without compassion on the witness of two or three witnesses.

Revelation 11:3

“And I shall give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth.”