³⁰ “‘Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.^(A)

⁵ take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death.^{(A) 6} On the testimony of two or three witnesses a person is to be put to death, but no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.^{(B) 7} The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting that person to death,^(C) and then the hands of all the people.^(D) You must purge the evil^(E) from among you.

¹⁶ But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’^[a](A)

¹⁷ In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true.^(A)

Final Warnings

13 This will be my third visit to you.^(A) “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”^[a](B)