Deuteronomy 19 Cross References - BBE

¹ When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses; ² You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage. ³ You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight. ⁴ This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate; ⁵ For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe: ⁶ For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate. ⁷ And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose. ⁸ And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers; ⁹ If you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to these three, be marked out for you: ¹⁰ So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible. ¹¹ But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns; ¹² The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death. ¹³ Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you. ¹⁴ Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you. ¹⁵ One witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a question is to be judged. ¹⁶ If a false witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done wrong, ¹⁷ Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power; ¹⁸ And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother, ¹⁹ Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you. ²⁰ And the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and never again do such evil among you. ²¹ Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

⁶ Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.

¹⁸ In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: ¹⁹ The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, ²⁰ And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, ²¹ And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.

¹⁴ Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

² And Jacob saw that Laban's feeling for him was no longer what it had been before.

¹² He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death. ¹³ But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.

¹³ But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight. ¹⁴ But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

²³ But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment for life, ²⁴ Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵ Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow.

¹ Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness. ² Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision: ³ But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause. ⁴ If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him. ⁵ If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire. ⁶ Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause. ⁷ Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.

³¹ I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.

²⁴ For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year.

¹⁷ And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.

¹⁷ And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death. ¹⁸ And anyone wounding a beast and causing its death, will have to make payment for it: a life for a life. ¹⁹ And if a man does damage to his neighbour, as he has done, so let it be done to him; ²⁰ Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him. ²¹ He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.

²¹ He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.

¹⁰ Say to the children of Israel, when you have gone over Jordan into the land of Canaan; ¹¹ Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight. ¹² In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.

¹² In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people. ¹³ Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places; ¹⁴ Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight. ¹⁵ For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.

¹⁵ For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight. ¹⁶ But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

¹⁶ But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death. ¹⁷ Or if he gives him a blow with a stone in his hand, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

¹⁷ Or if he gives him a blow with a stone in his hand, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death. ¹⁸ Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his hands, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

¹⁸ Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his hands, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death. ¹⁹ He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

¹⁹ He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him. ²⁰ If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting secretly for him sent a spear or stone at him, causing his death;

²⁰ If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting secretly for him sent a spear or stone at him, causing his death; ²¹ Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to death; he is a taker of life: he whose right it is to give punishment for blood may put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

²¹ Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to death; he is a taker of life: he whose right it is to give punishment for blood may put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him. ²² But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him, ²³ Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothing against him and no desire to do him evil: ²⁴ Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules:

²⁴ Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules: ²⁵ And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.

³⁰ Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness is not enough.

³³ So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.

³³ So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it. ³⁴ Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.

⁴¹ Then Moses had three towns marked out on the far side of Jordan looking to the east; ⁴² To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death:

⁴² To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death: ⁴³ The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for Manasseh.

¹⁰ And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

¹ When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you; ² And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

² And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

¹⁶ And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.

²² For if you take care to keep all the orders which I give you, and to do them; loving the Lord your God and walking in all his ways and being true to him: ²³ Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves. ²⁴ Every place where you put your foot will be yours: from the waste land and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates as far as the Great Sea, will be the limits of your land. ²⁵ All people will give way before you: for the Lord your God will put the fear of you on all the land through which you go, as he has said.

¹ These are the laws and the decisions which you are to keep with care in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to be your heritage all the days of your life on earth.

²⁰ When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.

²⁹ When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;

³² You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.

⁵ And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

⁸ Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;

¹¹ And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.

¹⁴ Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;

⁴ If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;

⁶ On the word of two or three witnesses, a man may be given the punishment of death; but he is not to be put to death on the word of one witness. ⁷ The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

⁹ And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:

¹³ And all the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear and put away their pride. ¹⁴ When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you;

⁶ For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate.

¹³ Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.

²⁰ And the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and never again do such evil among you.

¹ If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death: ² Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured; ³ And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke; ⁴ And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken: ⁵ Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged:

⁵ Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged: ⁶ And all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man, washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley, ⁷ Will say, This death is not the work of our hands and our eyes have not seen it. ⁸ Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death. ⁹ So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

⁹ So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

²⁰ And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink. ²¹ Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.

²¹ Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear. ²² If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;

²¹ Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

²⁴ Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you.

⁷ If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you.

¹² Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.

¹⁷ Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it.

²⁴ Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it.

⁴ But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before.

² Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses, ³ So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood. ⁴ And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe. ⁵ And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.

⁵ And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate. ⁶ And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; till the death of him who is high priest at that time: then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight. ⁷ So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba which is Hebron in the hill-country of Judah.

⁷ So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba which is Hebron in the hill-country of Judah. ⁸ And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made selection of Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

⁷ And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

¹ In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.

¹⁴ And they put them with the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the resting-place of Kish, his father, in Zela in the country of Benjamin; they did all the king had given them orders to do. And after that, God gave ear to their prayers for the land.

⁵ Now you have knowledge of what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, and to the two captains of the army of Israel, Abner, the son of Ner, and Amasa, the son of Jether, whom he put to death, taking payment for the blood of war in time of peace, and making the band of my clothing and the shoes on my feet red with the blood of one put to death without cause. ⁶ So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.

²⁸ And news of this came to Joab; for Joab had been one of Adonijah's supporters, though he had not been on Absalom's side. Then Joab went in flight to the Tent of the Lord, and put his hands on the horns of the altar. ²⁹ And they said to King Solomon, Joab has gone in flight to the Tent of the Lord and is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, make an attack on him. ³⁰ And Benaiah came to the Tent of the Lord and said to him, The king says, Come out. And he said, No; but let death come to me here. And Benaiah went back to the king and gave him word of the answer which Joab had given. ³¹ And the king said, Do as he has said and make an attack on him there, and put his body into the earth; so that you may take away from me and from my family the blood of one put to death by Joab without cause.

³¹ And the king said, Do as he has said and make an attack on him there, and put his body into the earth; so that you may take away from me and from my family the blood of one put to death by Joab without cause. ³² And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah. ³³ So their blood will be on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed for ever; but for David and his seed and his family and the seat of his kingdom, there will be peace for ever from the Lord. ³⁴ So Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, went up, and falling on him, put him to death; and his body was put to rest in his house in the waste land.

²¹ And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.

¹⁰ And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.

¹⁰ And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death. ¹¹ So the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority in his town, did as Jezebel had said in the letter she sent them. ¹² They gave orders for a day of public sorrow, and put Naboth at the head of the people. ¹³ And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.

¹³ And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.

⁵ But one of them, while cutting a board, let the head of his axe go into the water; and he gave a cry, and said, This is a bad business, my master, for it is another's. ⁶ And the man of God said, Where did it go in? and when he saw the place where it had gone into the water, cutting a stick, he put it into the water, and the iron came up to the top of the water. ⁷ Then he said, Take it up. So he put out his hand and took it.

¹⁶ More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

⁴ And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.

² In the past, when Saul was king, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in; and the Lord your God said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel, and their ruler.

⁶ And said to the judges, Take care what you do, for you are judging not for man but for the Lord, and he is with you in the decisions you give. ⁷ So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.

²⁰ Further, there have been great kings in Jerusalem, ruling over all the country across the river, to whom they gave taxes and payments in goods and forced payments.

¹⁶ At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.

² The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

¹² Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.

¹¹ False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

²¹ They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

¹⁷ Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

⁵ A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.

⁹ A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.

¹¹ When the man of pride undergoes punishment, the simple man gets wisdom; and by watching the wise he gets knowledge.

²⁸ Let not the old landmark be moved which your fathers have put in place.

¹⁰ Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;

¹² The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

¹⁷ One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

³³ For a place of fire has long been ready; yes, it has been made ready for the king; he has made it deep and wide: it is massed with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of fire, puts a light to it.

² And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

⁸ And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.

¹⁴ And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.

⁷ Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

¹⁰ Go through, go through the doors; make ready the way of the people; let the highway be lifted up; let the stones be taken away; let a flag be lifted up over the peoples.

⁶ If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves: ⁷ Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever.

¹⁵ So this is what the Lord has said about the prophets who make use of my name, though I sent them not, and say, The sword and need of food will not be in this land: the sword and need of food will put an end to those prophets.

¹⁵ Only be certain that, if you put me to death, you will make yourselves and your town and its people responsible for the blood of one who has done no wrong: for truly, the Lord has sent me to you to say all these words in your ears. ¹⁶ Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, It is not right for this man to be put to death: for he has said words to us in the name of the Lord our God.

⁵ No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you or to be kind to you; but you were put out into the open country, because your life was hated at the time of your birth.

²⁴ And at the king's order, they took those men who had said evil against Daniel, and put them in the lions' hole, with their wives and their children; and they had not got to the floor of the hole before the lions overcame them and all their bones were broken.

¹⁰ The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.

¹⁹ Egypt will be a waste and Edom a land of destruction, because of the evil done to the children of Judah, because they have let blood be drained out in their land without cause.

¹⁴ So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man's life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you.

⁷ For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.

³⁸ You have knowledge that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: ³⁹ But I say to you, Do not make use of force against an evil man; but to him who gives you a blow on the right side of your face let the left be turned.

¹⁶ But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.

² The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses; ³ All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.

⁶⁰ And they were not able to get it, though a number of false witnesses came. ⁶¹ But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.

⁴ Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business. ⁵ And he put down the silver in the Temple and went out, and put himself to death by hanging.

⁵⁵ Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for witness against Jesus so that they might put him to death; and they were unable to get any. ⁵⁶ For a number gave false witness against him and their witness was not in agreement. ⁵⁷ Then some got up and gave false witness against him, saying, ⁵⁸ He said in our hearing, I will put an end to this Temple which is made with hands, and in three days I will make another without hands. ⁵⁹ And even so their witness was not in agreement.

¹⁷ Even in your law it is said that the witness of two men is true.

¹³ And they got false witnesses who said, This man is for ever saying things against this holy place and against the law:

³ For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise; ⁴ For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer.

¹ This is the third time that I am coming to you. From the mouth of two or three witnesses will every word be made certain.

¹⁹ Do not take as true any statement made against one in authority, but only if two or three give witness to it. ²⁰ Say sharp words to sinners when all are present, so that the rest may be in fear.

¹⁸ So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

²⁸ A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:

¹³ And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.

³ And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth. ⁴ These are the two olive-trees and the two lights, which are before the Lord of the earth. ⁵ And if any man would do them damage, fire comes out of their mouth and puts an end to those who are working against them: and if any man has a desire to do them damage, in this way will he be put to death. ⁶ These have the power to keep the heaven shut, so that there may be no rain in the days when they are prophets: and they have power over the waters to make them into blood, and to send every sort of disease on the earth as their pleasure is. ⁷ And when they have come to the end of their witness, the beast which comes up out of the great deep will make war on them and overcome them and put them to death.