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 19:18

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, ¹ 

Deuteronomy 5:20

5:20 You must not offer false testimony against another. ² 

Deuteronomy 19:16

19:16 If a false ³  witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime, ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 19:15

19:15 A single witness may not testify ⁵  against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established ⁶  only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Deuteronomy 17:7

17:7 The witnesses ⁷  must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people ⁸  are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 31:26

31:26 “Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. It will remain there as a witness against you,

Deuteronomy 31:19

31:19 Now write down for yourselves the following song and teach it to the Israelites. Put it into their very mouths so that this song may serve as my witness against the Israelites!

Deuteronomy 31:21

31:21 Then when ⁹  many disasters and distresses overcome them ¹⁰  this song will testify against them, ¹¹  for their ¹²  descendants will not forget it. ¹³  I know the ¹⁴  intentions they have in mind ¹⁵  today, even before I bring them ¹⁶  to the land I have promised.”

¹ tn Heb “his brother” (also in the following verse).

¹ tn Heb “your neighbor.” Clearly this is intended generically, however, and not to be limited only to those persons who live nearby (frequently the way “neighbor” is understood in contemporary contexts). So also in v. 20.

¹ tn Heb “violent” (חָמָס, khamas). This is a witness whose motivation from the beginning is to do harm to the accused and who, therefore, resorts to calumny and deceit. See I. Swart and C. VanDam, NIDOTTE 2:177-80.

² tn Or “rebellion.” Rebellion against God’s law is in view (cf. NAB “of a defection from the law”).

¹ tn Heb “rise up” (likewise in v. 16).

² tn Heb “may stand.”

¹ tn Heb “the hand of the witnesses.” This means the two or three witnesses are to throw the first stones (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

² tn Heb “the hand of all the people.”

¹ tn Heb “Then it will come to pass that.”

² tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

³ tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

⁴ tn Heb “his.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “their.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

⁵ tn Heb “it will not be forgotten from the mouth of his seed.”

⁶ tn Heb “his.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “their.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

⁷ tn Heb “which he is doing.”

⁸ tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.