Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
" 'If anyone kills a person, the killer will be put to death {according to the testimony} of witnesses, but someone cannot die on testimony of one person.
New American Standard Bible
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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.
Holman Bible
“If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death based on the word of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of one witness.
International Standard Version
"Every murderer of a human being is to be executed only according to testimony given by multiple witnesses. A single witness is not to result in a death sentence.
A Conservative Version
Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses, but one witness shall not testify against any person so that he dies.
American Standard Version
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.
Amplified
‘If anyone kills a person [intentionally], the murderer shall be put to death on the testimony of [two or more] witnesses; but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of [only] one witness.
Bible in Basic English
Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness is not enough.
Darby Translation
Whoever shall smite a person mortally, at the mouth of witnesses shall the murderer be put to death; but one witness shall not testify against a person to cause him to die.
Julia Smith Translation
Every one striking a soul by the mouth of witnesses, he shall slay the slayer: and one witness shall not testify against a soul to die.
King James 2000
Whoever kills 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.
Modern King James verseion
Whoever kills 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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Whosoever slayeth, shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses. For one witness shall not answer against one person to put him to death.
NET Bible
"Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony of witnesses; but one witness cannot testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.
New Heart English Bible
"'Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.
The Emphasized Bible
Whosoever taketh away life, at the mouth of witnesses, shall, the slayer be slain, - but, one witness, shall not testify against a person, to put him to death.
Webster
Whoever 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.
World English Bible
"'Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.
Youngs Literal Translation
whoso smiteth a person, by the mouth of witnesses doth one slay the murderer; and one witness doth not testify against a person -- to die.
Themes
Courts » Advocates » Witnesses, two or more needed to convict
Defilement » Who defiles the land
Murder » To be proved by two witnesses at least
Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » For murder
Punishment » Death penalty » Not done » Less than » Two witnesses
Refuge » Cities of » From the avenger of blood
Witness » The necessity of more than one witness for anything to be established
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 35:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
Cities Of Refuge
29 These things will be as a decree of justice for you for your generations in all your dwellings. 30 " 'If anyone kills a person, the killer will be put to death {according to the testimony} of witnesses, but someone cannot die on testimony of one person. 31 Also, you will not take a ransom payment for the life of a killer who [is] guilty of death; indeed, he must surely be put to death.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:15
{The testimony of a single witness may not be used to convict} [with respect to] any crime and for any wrongdoing in any offense that a person committed; on the {evidence} of two witnesses or on the {evidence} of three witnesses {a charge shall be sustained}.
Matthew 18:16
But if he does not listen, take with you in addition one or two [others], so that by {the testimony} of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.
2 Corinthians 13:1
This [is] the third [time] I am coming to you. {By the testimony} of two or three witnesses every word will be established.
Hebrews 10:28
Anyone who rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses.
John 8:17-18
And even in your law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.
1 Timothy 5:19
Do not accept an accusation against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
Numbers 35:16
" 'But if he hit him with an object of iron, so that he dies, the killer must surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 17:6-7
{On the evidence of} two or three witnesses {the person shall be put to death}. The person shall not be put to death by the mouth of one witness.
John 7:51
"Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, [does it]?"
Revelation 11:3
And I will grant [authority] to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy [for one] thousand two hundred sixty days, dressed in sackcloth."