Numbers 35:30
The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
29These things shall be perpetual, and for an ordinance in all your dwellings.
31You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith.
Cross References
Numbers 35:16If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck : he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.
Deuteronomy 19:15One witness shall not rise up against any man, whatsoever the sin or wickedness be: but in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall stand.
John 7:51Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him, and know what he doth?
2 Corinthians 13:1Behold, this is the third time I am coming to you: In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word stand.
Hebrews 10:28A man making void the law of Moses, dieth without any mercy under 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 →