Numbers 35:30 · KJV
“Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person {to cause him} to die.”
— Numbers 35:30
So these {things} shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which {is} guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. {guilty...: Heb. faulty to die}
Numbers 35 — Context
Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
29So these {things} shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
30Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person {to cause him} to die.
31Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which {is} guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. {guilty...: Heb. faulty to die}
32And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
Cross References
Hebrews 10:28
He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
Deuteronomy 19:15
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
Matthew 18:16
But if he will not hear {thee, then} take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
2 Corinthians 13:1
This {is} the third {time} I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
1 Timothy 5:19
Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses. {before: or, under}
John 8:17-18
It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
Numbers 35:16
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he {is} a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
John 7:51
Doth our law judge {any} man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?