whoso smiteth a person, by the mouth of witnesses doth one slay the murderer; and one witness doth not testify against a person--to die.
`He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death;
`And when a man smiteth any soul of man, he is certainly put to death.
`And if with an instrument of iron he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.
`And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who is condemned--to die, for he is certainly put to death;
and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.
`Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?'
This third time do I come unto you; on the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every saying be established;
`One witness doth not rise against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he sinneth; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, is a thing established.
`Cursed is he who is smiting his neighbour in secret, --and all the people have said, Amen.
Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.
any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,
and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth;