Numbers 35:30

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“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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 19:15 : 15 A single witness may not testify against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
  • Matt 18:16 : 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.
  • 2 Cor 13:1 : 1 Paul’s Third Visit to Corinth This is the third time I am coming to visit you. By the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter will be established.
  • Heb 10:28 : 28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
  • 1 Tim 5:19 : 19 Do not accept an accusation against an elder unless it can be confirmed by two or three witnesses.
  • John 8:17-18 : 17 It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. 18 I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”
  • Rev 11:3 : 3 And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”
  • John 7:51 : 51 “Our law doesn’t condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?”
  • Num 35:16 : 16 “But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.
  • Deut 17:6-7 : 6 At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness. 7 The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 17:5-7
    3 verses
    86%

    5you must bring to your city gates that man or woman who has done this wicked thing– that very man or woman– and you must stone that person to death.

    6At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

    7The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Num 35:31
    84%

    31Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

  • Lev 24:16-18
    3 verses
    82%

    16and one who misuses the name of the LORD must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must surely stone him, whether he is a resident foreigner or a native citizen; when he misuses the Name he must be put to death.

    17“‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.

    18One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, life for life.

  • Num 35:16-24
    9 verses
    79%

    16“But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

    17If he strikes him by throwing a stone large enough that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

    18Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon so that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

    19The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.

    20“But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally so that he dies,

    21or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.

    22“But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally,

    23or with any stone large enough that a man could die, without seeing him, and throws it at him, and he dies, even though he was not his enemy nor sought his harm,

    24then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.

  • Exod 21:12
    78%

    12Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

  • Deut 19:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15A single witness may not testify against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

    16If a false witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime,

  • Lev 24:21
    75%

    21One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

  • Exod 21:14-17
    4 verses
    74%

    14But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

    15“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

    16“Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death.

    17“Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

  • Deut 13:9
    73%

    9Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

  • Deut 19:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

    11However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

    12The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.

  • Lev 20:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9Family Life and Sexual Prohibitions“‘If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.

    10If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

  • Num 35:29
    73%

    29So these things must be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.

  • Num 15:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35Then the LORD said to Moses,“The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone him with stones outside the camp.”

    36So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Num 35:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.

    12And they must stand as your towns of refuge from the avenger in order that the killer may not die until he has stood trial before the community.

  • Num 35:27
    72%

    27and the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the town of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer, he will not be guilty of blood,

  • Deut 5:17
    71%

    17You must not murder.

  • Exod 35:2
    71%

    2In six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.

  • Matt 5:21
    71%

    21Anger and Murder“You have heard that it was said to an older generation,‘Do not murder,’ and‘whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.’

  • Deut 21:1
    70%

    1Laws Concerning Unsolved Murder If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him,

  • Heb 10:28
    70%

    28Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

  • Exod 20:13
    70%

    13“You shall not murder.

  • Gen 9:6
    70%

    6“Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”

  • Deut 27:25
    70%

    25‘Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • Deut 19:6
    70%

    6Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

  • Deut 19:21
    69%

    21You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.

  • Prov 19:9
    69%

    9A false witness will not go unpunished, and the one who spouts out lies will perish.

  • Exod 31:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, if anyone does any work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his people.

    15Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.

  • Prov 21:28
    69%

    28A lying witness will perish, but the one who reports accurately speaks forever.