Numbers 35:30

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

If any one kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses; but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

Cross References

Exodus 21:12

“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.

Leviticus 24:17

He who kills a man shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

“But if he struck him down with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:31

Moreover you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death; but he shall be put to death.

Matthew 18:16

But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

John 7:51

“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”

2 Corinthians 13:1

This is the third time I am coming to you. Any charge must be sustained by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

Deuteronomy 19:15

“A single witness shall not prevail against a man for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed; only on the evidence of two witnesses, or of three witnesses, shall a charge be sustained.

Deuteronomy 27:24

“ ‘Cursed be he who slays his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

1 Timothy 5:19

Never admit any charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

Hebrews 10:28

A man who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy at the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Revelation 11:3

And I will grant my two witnesses power to prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”