Whoever strikes a being, the murderer shall be executed by the mouth of witnesses, but one witness does not bear witness against someone to die.
“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall certainly be put to death.
‘And a man who strikes the being of any man shall certainly be put to death.
But if he has stricken him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall certainly be put to death.
And take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall certainly be put to death.
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.’
Does our Torah judge the man unless it hears first from him and knows what he is doing?
This is the third time I am coming to you. “By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.”
“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.
Cursed is he who strikes his neighbour secretly.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amĕn!’
Do not receive an accusation against an elder except from two or three witnesses.
Anyone who has disregarded the Torah of Mosheh dies without compassion on the witness of two or three witnesses.
“And I shall give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth.”