Deuteronomy 19:17 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Deuteronomy 19:17

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 ^arises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

17 then both men in the controversy shall stand before the Lord, ^abefore 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 ^athen you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so ^byou shall put away the evil from among you.

20 ^aAnd those who remain shall hear and fear, and hereafter they shall not again commit such evil among you.

21 ^aYour eye shall not pity: ^blife shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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PUNISHMENT OF A FALSE WITNESS. (Deuteronomy 19:16-21)

But if convicted of perjury, it will be sufficient for his own condemnation, and his punishment shall be exactly the same as would have overtaken the object of his malignant prosecution. (See on Exodus 21:23; see also Leviticus 24:20).

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