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Deuteronomy 19:14-16
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Deuteronomy 19:14-16
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Laws Concerning Witnesses
14 You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property,[a] which will have been defined[b] in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the Lord your God is giving you.[c]
15 A single witness may not testify[d] against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established[e] only on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 16 If a false[f] witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime,[g]
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- Deuteronomy 19:14 tn Heb “border.” Cf. NRSV “You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker.”
- Deuteronomy 19:14 tn Heb “which they set off from the beginning.”
- Deuteronomy 19:14 tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it.” This phrase has been left untranslated to avoid redundancy.
- Deuteronomy 19:15 tn Heb “rise up” (likewise in v. 16).
- Deuteronomy 19:15 tn Heb “may stand.”
- Deuteronomy 19:16 tn Heb “violent” (חָמָס, khamas). This is a witness whose motivation from the beginning is to do harm to the accused and who, therefore, resorts to calumny and deceit. See I. Swart and C. VanDam, NIDOTTE 2:177-80.
- Deuteronomy 19:16 tn Or “rebellion.” Rebellion against God’s law is in view (cf. NAB “of a defection from the law”).
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