Numbers 35:30

Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses, but one witness shall not testify against any person so that he dies.

A Conservative Version

In The 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.

In Context

29And these things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

31Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.

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Cross References

Numbers 35:16But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 19:15One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

John 7:51Does our law judge a man, unless it first may hear from himself and know what he does?

2 Corinthians 13:1This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two witnesses or three every saying will be confirmed.

Hebrews 10:28Any man who has disregarded the law of Moses dies without mercies from two or three witnesses.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 35:10-34

The Cities of Refuge. ( b. c. 1452.) 9 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan; 11 Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares. 12 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment. 13 And of these cities which ye shall give… Read the whole commentary →

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