Deuteronomy 19:17

Then the two men to whom the cause belongeth shall stand in the presence of the Lord before the priests and judges who shall be in those days;

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

In Context

16If a false witness stand up against a man to testify against him with perversity,

18And the judges shall make inquest fairly, and, behold, he hath testified falsely, and the testimony is false that he bath witnessed against his brother,

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Cross References

Exodus 21:6His master shall bring him before the judges, and shall take him to the door, even to the post, and his master shall bore his ear with an awl; and he shall be to him a working servant forever.

Deuteronomy 17:9and come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who may be in those days, and inquire; and they will show thee the sentence of decision.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 19:15-21

False Witnesses. ( b. c. 1451.) 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it. 15 One 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. 16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is… Read the whole commentary →

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