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 21:13

21:13 discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, ⁶  and stay ⁷  in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations ⁸  with her and become her husband and she your wife.

John 8:17

8:17 It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. ⁹ 

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 ¹⁰  them.

Colossians 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From Paul, ¹¹  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Colossians 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From Paul, ¹²  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Colossians 1:19

1:19 For God ¹³  was pleased to have all his ¹⁴  fullness dwell ¹⁵  in the Son ¹⁶ 

Hebrews 10:28

10:28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death ¹⁷  without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ¹⁸ 

Hebrews 10:1

Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted

10:1 For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship. ¹⁹ 

Hebrews 5:7-8

5:7 During his earthly life ²⁰  Christ ²¹  offered ²²  both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion. 5:8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered. ²³ 

Revelation 11:3

11:3 And I will grant my two witnesses authority ²⁴  to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.

[35:30]  ¹ tn Heb “ at the mouth of”; the metonymy stresses it is at their report.

[35:30]  ² tn The verb should be given the nuance of imperfect of potentiality.

[19:15]  ³ tn Heb “rise up” (likewise in v. 16).

[19:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “may stand.”

[19:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[21:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “she is to…remove the clothing of her captivity” (cf. NASB); NRSV “discard her captive’s garb.”

[21:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “sit”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “remain.”

[21:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “go unto,” a common Hebrew euphemism for sexual relations.

[8:17]  ⁹ sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.

[8:2]  ¹⁰ tn An ingressive sense for the imperfect fits well here following the aorist participle.

[1:1]  ¹¹ tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.

[1:1]  ¹² tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.

[1:19]  ¹³ tn The noun “God” does not appear in the Greek text, but since God is the one who reconciles the world to himself (cf. 2 Cor 5:19), he is clearly the subject of εὐδόκησεν (eudokhsen).

[1:19]  ¹⁴ tn The Greek article τό (to), insofar as it relates to God, may be translated as a possessive pronoun, i.e., “his.” BDAG 404 s.v. εὐδοκέω 1 translates the phrase as “all the fullness willed to dwell in him” thus leaving the referent as impersonal. Insofar as Paul is alluding to the so-called emanations from God this is acceptable. But the fact that “the fullness” dwells in a person (i.e., “in him”) seems to argue for the translation “his fullness” where “his” refers to God.

[1:19]  ¹⁵ tn The aorist verb κατοικῆσαι (katoikhsai) could be taken as an ingressive, in which case it refers to the incarnation and may be translated as “begin to dwell, to take up residence.” It is perhaps better, though, to take it as a constative aorist and simply a reference to the fact that the fullness of God dwells in Jesus Christ. This is a permanent dwelling, though, not a temporary one, as the present tense in 2:9 makes clear.

[1:19]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “him”; the referent (the Son; see v. 13) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:28]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “dies.”

[10:28]  ¹⁸ sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.

[10:1]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “those who approach.”

[5:7]  ²⁰ tn Grk “in the days of his flesh.”

[5:7]  ²¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Christ) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:7]  ²² tn Grk “who…having offered,” continuing the description of Christ from Heb 5:5-6.

[5:8]  ²³ sn There is a wordplay in the Greek text between the verbs “learned” (ἔμαθεν, emaqen) and “suffered” (ἔπαθεν, epaqen).

[11:3]  ²⁴ tn The word “authority” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. “Power” would be another alternative that could be supplied here.