Numbers 35:30

“‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain based on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify alone against any person so that he dies.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

29“‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

31“‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.

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Cross References

Numbers 35:16“‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 19:15One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

John 7:51“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”

2 Corinthians 13:1This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”

Hebrews 10:28A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 35:10-34

The Cities of Refuge. ( b. c. 1452.) 9 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan; 11 Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares. 12 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment. 13 And of these cities which ye shall give… Read the whole commentary →

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