Numbers 35:30

Whoever strikes a person, by the mouth of witnesses [one] slays the murderer; and one witness does not testify against a person to cause [him] to die.

Literal Standard 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 have been for a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations, in all your dwellings.

31And you take no atonement for the life of a murderer who [is] condemned to die, for he is certainly put to death;

Read all of Numbers 35

Cross References

Numbers 35:16And if he has struck him with an instrument of iron, and he dies, he [is] a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

Deuteronomy 19:15One witness does not rise against a man for any iniquity and for any sin, in any sin which he sins; by the mouth of two witnesses or by the mouth of three witnesses is a thing established.

John 7:51“Does our law judge the Man, if it may not hear from Him first, and know what He does?”

2 Corinthians 13:1I come to you this third time; on the mouth of two or three witnesses will every saying be established;

Hebrews 10:28anyone having set aside a law of Moses dies without mercies on the basis 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Numbers 35:30