Deuteronomy 19:15-21

New King James Version

The Law Concerning Witnesses

^15 (A)“One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established. ¹⁶ If a false witness ^(B)rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, ¹⁷ then both men in the controversy shall stand before the Lord, ^(C)before the priests and the judges who serve in those days. ¹⁸ And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother, ^19 (D)then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so ^(E)you shall put away the evil from among you. ^20 (F)And those who remain shall hear and fear, and hereafter they shall not again commit such evil among you. ^21 (G)Your eye shall not pity: ^(H)life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.