Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Any one having rejected Moses' law, without compassion dies by two or three witnesses:

New American Standard Bible

Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

King James Version

He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

Holman Bible

If anyone disregards Moses’ law, he dies without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

International Standard Version

Anyone who violates the Law of Moses dies without mercy "on the testimony of two or three witnesses."

A Conservative Version

Any man who has disregarded the law of Moses dies without mercies from two or three witnesses.

American Standard Version

A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses:

Amplified

Anyone who has ignored and set aside the Law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

An Understandable Version

The person who has disregarded the law of Moses is put to death without being shown mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Anderson New Testament

He that despised Moses law, died without mercy, on the testimony of two or three witnesses:

Bible in Basic English

A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:

Common New Testament

Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Daniel Mace New Testament

He that by two or three witnesses was convicted of violating Moses's law, was put to death without mercy.

Darby Translation

Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses:

Godbey New Testament

The one having rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy before two or three witnesses:

Goodspeed New Testament

Anyone who breaks the Law of Moses is put to death without any show of pity, on the evidence of only two or three witnesses.

John Wesley New Testament

He that despised the law of Moses died without mercy, under two or three witnesses.

King James 2000

He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

Lexham Expanded Bible

Anyone who rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses.

Modern King James verseion

He who despised Moses' Law died without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He that despiseth Moses' law, dieth without mercy under two or three witnesses.

Moffatt New Testament

Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy, on the evidence of two or of three witnesses.

Montgomery New Testament

Any one who set at naught the law of Moses was put to death without pity, on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

NET Bible

Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

New Heart English Bible

A man who disregards the Law of Moses dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

Noyes New Testament

He that hath set at nought the law of Moses dieth without mercy under two or three witnesses;

Sawyer New Testament

Any one who despised the law of Moses died without mercy by two or three witnesses;

The Emphasized Bible

Any one having set aside a law of Moses, apart from compassions, upon the testimony of two or three witnesses, dieth:

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Any man who treated the law of Moses with neglect, was put to death, without mercy, on the deposition of two or three witnesses:

Twentieth Century New Testament

When a man disregarded the Law of Moses, he was, on the evidence of two or three witnesses, put to death without pity.

Webster

He that despised Moses' law, died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

Weymouth New Testament

Any one who bids defiance to the Law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Williams New Testament

Anyone who breaks the law of Moses pays the death penalty without any show of pity, on the evidence of two or three witnesses only.

World English Bible

A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

Worrell New Testament

Anyone, having set aside Moses' law, dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses;

Worsley New Testament

If any one that violateth the law of Moses, dieth without mercy under two or three witnesses,

Youngs Literal Translation

any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He that
τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 373

ἀθετέω 
Atheteo 
Usage: 10

Μωσεύς Μωσῆς Μωΰσῆς 
Moseus 
Usage: 60

law
νόμος 
Nomos 
law
Usage: 179

ἀποθνήσκω 
Apothnesko 
die, be dead, be at the point of death +9, perish, lie a dying, be slain +, vr dead
Usage: 93

χωρίς 
Choris 
Usage: 38

οἰκτιρμός 
Oiktirmos 
Usage: 5

ἐπί 
Epi 
on, in, upon, unto, to,
Usage: 644

two
δύο 
Duo 
two, twain, both, two and two
Usage: 92

or
ἤ 
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
Usage: 199

τρεῖς τρία 
Treis 
Usage: 51

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

A Serious Warning Against Continuing Deliberate Sin

27 But a certain terrible expectation of judgment and jealousy of fire, being about to devour the adversaries. 28 Any one having rejected Moses' law, without compassion dies by two or three witnesses: 29 Of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be deemed worthy. having trodden down the Son of God, and deemed the blood of the covenant common, in which he was consecrated, and having outraged the Spirit of grace?

Cross References

Hebrews 2:2

For if the word spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and bad instruction received the just payment of reward;

Deuteronomy 19:15

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he shall sin; by the mouth of two witnesses or by the mouth of three witnesses the word shall be established.

Matthew 18:16

But if he hear thee not, take with thee yet one or two, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word might stand.

Numbers 15:30-31

And the soul which shall do with a high hand, from the native, and from the stranger, it reproaches Jehovah, and that soul was cut off from the midst of its people.

Numbers 15:36

And all the assembly shall bring him forth without the camp, and they shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

Deuteronomy 13:6-10

When thy brother, the son of thy mother, shall entice thee, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend who is as thy soul, in secret, saying, We will go and serve other gods which thou knewest not, thou, and thy fathers;

Deuteronomy 17:2-13

When there shall be found in the midst of thee in one of thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, a man or a woman who shall do evil in the eyes of Jehovah thy God to pass by his covenant,

Deuteronomy 19:13

Thine eye shall not pity him and put away innocent blood from Israel, and it was well to thee.

2 Samuel 12:9

Wherefore didst thou despise the word of Jehovah to do evil in his eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou didst strike with the sword, and his wife thou tookest to thee for a wife, and thou didst kill him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

2 Samuel 12:13

And David will say to Nathan, I sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan will say to David, Jehovah also passed over thy sin; thou shalt not die.

Isaiah 27:11

In its harvest being dried up, women shall break it off in coming, illuminating it: for it is a people not understanding: for this he making them will not compassionate them, and he forming them will not have mercy upon them.

Jeremiah 13:14

And I dashed them in pieces, a man against his brother, and the fathers and the sons together, says Jehovah. I will not pity, and I will not spare, and I will not compassionate from destroying them.

John 8:17

And also in your law has it been written, that the testimony of two men is true.

Romans 9:15

I will commiserate whomsoever I commiserate, and I will have compassion upon whomsoever I have compassion.

2 Corinthians 13:1

This third I come to you. By mouth of two witnesses, and three, shall every word be established.

James 2:13

For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment.

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