“If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
“A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established.
This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”
And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”
On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
“But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.
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