Numbers 35:30
35:30 “Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony 1 of witnesses; but one witness cannot 2 testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.
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 3 against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established 4 only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Deuteronomy 19:1
Laws Concerning Manslaughter
19:1 When the Lord your God destroys the nations whose land he 5 is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,
Deuteronomy 21:10
Laws Concerning Wives
21:10 When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the Lord your God allows you to prevail 6 and you take prisoners,
Deuteronomy 21:13
21:13 discard the clothing she was wearing when captured,
7 and stay
8 in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations
9 with her and become her husband and she your wife.
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.
10
Matthew 26:60-61
26:60 But they did not find anything, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally
11 two came forward
26:61 and declared, “This man
12 said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”
John 8:17-18
8:17 It is written in your law that
the testimony of two men is true.
13
8:18 I testify about myself
14 and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”
Hebrews 10:28-29
10:28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death
15 without mercy
on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
16
10:29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for
17 the Son of God, and profanes
18 the blood of the covenant that made him holy,
19 and insults the Spirit of grace?
1 tn Heb “ at the mouth of”; the metonymy stresses it is at their report.
2 tn The verb should be given the nuance of imperfect of potentiality.
3 tn Heb “rise up” (likewise in v. 16).
4 tn Heb “may stand.”
5 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.
6 tn Heb “gives him into your hands.”
7 tn Heb “she is to…remove the clothing of her captivity” (cf. NASB); NRSV “discard her captive’s garb.”
8 tn Heb “sit”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “remain.”
9 tn Heb “go unto,” a common Hebrew euphemism for sexual relations.
10 sn A quotation from Deut 19:15.
11 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
12 tn Grk “This one.”
13 sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.
14 tn Grk “I am the one who testifies about myself.”
15 tn Grk “dies.”
16 sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.
17 tn Grk “tramples under foot.”
18 tn Grk “regarded as common.”
19 tn Grk “by which he was made holy.”