Deuteronomy 17:6
17:6 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.
Deuteronomy 19:15
19:15 A single witness may not testify 1 against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established 2 only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Deuteronomy 19:18-19
19:18 The judges will thoroughly investigate the matter, and if the witness should prove to be false and to have given false testimony against the accused,
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19:19 you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge
4 evil from among you.
Matthew 18:16
18:16 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.
5
John 8:17
8:17 It is written in your law that
the testimony of two men is true.
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John 8:2
8:2 Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach
7 them.
Colossians 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, 8 an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Hebrews 10:28
10:28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death
9 without mercy
on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
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1 tn Heb “rise up” (likewise in v. 16).
2 tn Heb “may stand.”
3 tn Heb “his brother” (also in the following verse).
4 tn Heb “you will burn out” (בִּעַרְתָּ, bi’arta). Like a cancer, unavenged sin would infect the whole community. It must, therefore, be excised by the purging out of its perpetrators who, presumably, remained unrepentant (cf. Deut 13:6; 17:7, 12; 21:21; 22:21-22, 24; 24:7).
5 sn A quotation from Deut 19:15.
6 sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.
7 tn An ingressive sense for the imperfect fits well here following the aorist participle.
8 tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.
9 tn Grk “dies.”
10 sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.