Numbers 35:30
If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be executed based on the evidence given by witnesses, plural. No one is to be executed based on the evidence given by a single witness.
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29These regulations apply to all future generations wherever you live.
Cross References
Numbers 35:16But if anyone deliberately hits someone with something made of iron and kills them, that person is a murderer and must be executed.
Deuteronomy 19:15The evidence given by a single witness is not enough to prove a sin or a crime against someone, never mind what offense they are alleged to have committed. The facts must be confirmed by the evidence given by two or three witnesses.
John 7:51“Does our law condemn a man without a hearing and without finding out what he actually did?”
2 Corinthians 13:1This is my third visit to you. “Any charge must be verified by two or three witnesses.”
Hebrews 10:28Someone who rejects the law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the evidence of 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 →