Deuteronomy 19:15-21

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁵ A single witness does not have legal standing to convict a person of any guilt or sin in connection with any wrongful action he may have committed. A case is to have standing only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

¹⁶ If a malicious witness rises up against a person to testify against him about a legal offense, ¹⁷ and if the two people involved in the dispute stand before the Lord and before the priests and the judges who preside at that time, ¹⁸ the judges are to investigate diligently. If the person is a dishonest witness because he has falsely accused his brother, ¹⁹ then you are to do to him just as he had plotted to do to his brother. So you will purge the evil from among you. ²⁰ The rest of the people will hear, and they will fear, and they will not do an evil thing like this among you again. ²¹ Your eye is not to look with compassion. The principle is life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.