Numbers 35:30 - Tree of Life Version Everyone killing anyone shall be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of more than one witness. No one is to be put to death on the testimony of only 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. |
Now if the manslayer strikes someone with an iron object so that he dies, he is a murderer and the murderer must die.
“You are not to accept ransom for the life of a murderer. He deserves to die and he is to die.
But if he does not listen, take with you one or two more, so that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand.’
“Our Torah doesn’t judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”
This is the third time I am coming to you. “By the testimony of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”
A single witness shall not rise up against a person for any offense or sin that he commits. By the word of two or three witnesses is a case to be established.
‘Cursed is the one who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ Then all the people are to say, ‘Amen.’
Do not accept an accusation against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
Anyone who rejected the Torah of Moses dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
And I will grant authority to My two witnesses and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”