Numbers 35:30

Whoso killeth any person, the manslayer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

Revised Version 1895

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 of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

31Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a manslayer, which 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 manslayer: the manslayer 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 sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

John 7:51Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?

2 Corinthians 13:1This is the third time I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word be established.

Hebrews 10:28A man that hath set at nought Moses’ law dieth without compassion on the word 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 →

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