Verse 16

Deuteronomy 19:16

Literal Standard Version

16 When a violent witness rises against a man to testify against him apostasy,

Original Language Text

hebrew

כִּֽי יָק֥וּם עֵד חָמָ֖ס בְּ/אִ֑ישׁ לַ/עֲנ֥וֹת בּ֖/וֹ סָרָֽה

English Translation

For when a witness of violence rises against a man to testify against him in wrongdoing.

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Chapter 19 Context

1 “When your God (Elohim) YHWH cuts off the nations whose land your God (Elohim) YHWH is giving to you... Focus ↗

2 you separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which your God (Elohim) YHWH is giv... Focus ↗

3 You prepare the way for yourself, and have divided into three parts the border of your land which yo... Focus ↗

4 And this is the matter of the manslayer who flees there, and has lived: he who strikes his neighbor... Focus ↗

5 even he who comes into a forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand has driven with an axe t... Focus ↗

6 lest the redeemer of blood pursue after the manslayer when his heart is hot and has overtaken him, b... Focus ↗

7 therefore I am commanding you, saying, You separate three cities for yourself. Focus ↗

8 And if your God (Elohim) YHWH enlarges your border, as He has sworn to your fathers, and has given t... Focus ↗

9 when you keep all this command to do it, which I am commanding you today, to love your God (Elohim)... Focus ↗

10 and do this lest innocent blood is shed in the midst of your land which your God (Elohim) YHWH is gi... Focus ↗

11 And when a man is hating his neighbor, and has lain in wait for him, and risen against him, and stru... Focus ↗

12 and the elderly of his city have sent and taken him from there, and given him into the hand of the r... Focus ↗

13 your eye has no pity on him, and you have put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it is well wi... Focus ↗

14 You do not remove a border of your neighbor, which they of former times have made, in your inheritan... Focus ↗

15 One witness does not rise against a man for any iniquity and for any sin, in any sin which he sins;... Focus ↗

16 When a violent witness rises against a man to testify against him apostasy,

17 then both of the men who have the strife have stood before YHWH, before the priests and the judges w... Focus ↗

18 and the judges have searched diligently, and behold, the witness is a false witness who has testifie... Focus ↗

19 then you have done to him as he devised to do to his brother, and you have put away evil out of your... Focus ↗

20 and those who are left hear and fear, and do not add to do according to this evil thing in your mids... Focus ↗

21 And your eye does not pity—life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot... Focus ↗

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