KJV King James Version
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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Numbers 35:30
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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.
WEB World English Bible
“‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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.
Surrounding context — Numbers 35
27 And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
28 Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
29 So these [things] shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
30 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.
31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which [is] guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye [are]: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כָּל־H3605 · kolallמַ֨כֵּה־H5221 · na.khahto smiteנֶ֔פֶשׁH5315 · ne.pheshsoulלְפִ֣יH6310 · pehlipעֵדִ֔יםH5707 · edwitnessיִרְצַ֖חH7523 · ra.tsachto murderאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָרֹצֵ֑חַH7523 · ra.tsachto murderוְעֵ֣דH5707 · edwitnessאֶחָ֔דH259 · e.chadoneלֹא־H3808 · lonotיַעֲנֶ֥הH6030 · unto dwellבְנֶ֖פֶשׁH5315 · ne.pheshsoulלָמֽוּת׃H4191 · mutto die
Cross-references
Hebrews 10:28He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:Matthew 18:16But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.Deuteronomy 19:15One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.2 Corinthians 13:1This [is] the third [time] I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.John 8:17-18It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.1 Timothy 5:19Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.Revelation 11:3And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.Deuteronomy 17:6-7At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; [but] at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.John 7:51Doth our law judge [any] man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?Numbers 35:16And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
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