Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death at the evidence of witnesses, but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נכה 
Nakah 
Usage: 501

נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

the murderer
רצח 
Ratsach 
Usage: 47

shall be put to death
רצח 
Ratsach 
Usage: 47

by the mouth
פּה 
Peh 
Usage: 497

עד 
`ed 
Usage: 69

but one
אחד 
'echad 
Usage: 432

עד 
`ed 
Usage: 69

ענה 
`anah 
Usage: 329

נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

Context Readings

Cities Of Refuge

29 'And these things have been to you for a statute of judgment to your generations, in all your dwellings: 30 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. 31 And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who is condemned -- to die, for he is certainly put to death;

Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:15

'One witness doth not rise against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he sinneth; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, is a thing established.

Matthew 18:16

and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.

2 Corinthians 13:1

This third time do I come unto you; on the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every saying be established;

Hebrews 10:28

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

John 8:17-18

and also in your law it hath been written, that the testimony of two men are true;

1 Timothy 5:19

Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.

Numbers 35:16

And if with an instrument of iron he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

Deuteronomy 17:6-7

By the mouth of two witnesses or of three witnesses is he who is dead put to death; he is not put to death by the mouth of one witness;

John 7:51

'Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?'

Revelation 11:3

and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth;

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