Numbers 35:30 - English Standard Version 2016 “If anyone 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man. |
“But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.
Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death.
But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”
This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
“A single witness shall not suffice against a person 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 established.
“‘Cursed be anyone who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”