Deuteronomy 19:15-21

New American Standard Bible

¹⁵ “^(A)A single witness shall not rise up against a person regarding any wrongdoing or any sin ^[a]that he commits; on the ^[b]testimony of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed. ^16 (B)If a malicious witness rises up against a person to testify against him of wrongdoing, ¹⁷ then both people who have the dispute shall stand ^(C)before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days. ¹⁸ And the judges ^(D)shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and he has testified against his brother falsely, ¹⁹ then ^(E)you shall do to him just as he had planned to do to his brother. So you shall eliminate the evil from among you. ²⁰ And ^(F)the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing among you. ²¹ So ^[c](G)you shall not show pity: ^(H)life for life, ^(I)eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.