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15 The testimony of a single witness may not be used to convict[a] with respect to any crime and for any wrongdoing in any offense that a person[b] committed; on the evidence[c] of two witnesses or on the evidence[d] of three witnesses a charge shall be sustained.[e] 16 If a malicious witness[f] gets up to accuse[g] anyone to testify against him falsely, 17 then the two men to whom the legal dispute pertains[h] shall stand before[i] Yahweh, before[j] the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 19:15 Literally “Not shall get up only a single witness against a man”
  2. Deuteronomy 19:15 Hebrew “he”
  3. Deuteronomy 19:15 Literally “mouth”
  4. Deuteronomy 19:15 Literally “mouth”
  5. Deuteronomy 19:15 Literally “shall be established a case/charge”
  6. Deuteronomy 19:16 Literally “a witness of violence”
  7. Deuteronomy 19:16 Literally “against”
  8. Deuteronomy 19:17 Literally “who for them are the legal dispute”
  9. Deuteronomy 19:17 Literally “to the face of”
  10. Deuteronomy 19:17 Literally “to the face of”