Deuteronomy 19:19
New International Version
then do to the false witness as that witness intended to do to the other party. You must purge the evil from among you.

New Living Translation
you must impose on the accuser the sentence he intended for the other person. In this way, you will purge such evil from among you.

English Standard Version
then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Berean Standard Bible
you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.

King James Bible
Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.

New King James Version
then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

New American Standard Bible
then you shall do to him just as he had planned to do to his brother. So you shall eliminate the evil from among you.

NASB 1995
then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

NASB 1977
then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

Legacy Standard Bible
then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

Amplified Bible
then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Christian Standard Bible
you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from you.

American Standard Version
then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to do unto his brother: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do to him as he plotted to do to his brother and uproot evil from among you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
then shall ye do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and thou shalt remove the evil from yourselves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall render to him as he meant to do to his brother, and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee:

English Revised Version
then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to do unto his brother: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
then do to him what he planned to do to the other person. You must get rid of this evil.

Good News Translation
you are to receive the punishment the accused would have received. In this way your nation will get rid of this evil.

International Standard Version
do to him just as he intended to do to his relative. By doing this you will purge evil from your midst.

JPS Tanakh 1917
then shall ye do unto him, as he had purposed to do unto his brother; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

Literal Standard Version
then you have done to him as he devised to do to his brother, and you have put away evil out of your midst,

Majority Standard Bible
you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.

New American Bible
you shall do to the false witness just as that false witness planned to do to the other. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.

NET Bible
you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

New Revised Standard Version
then you shall do to the false witness just as the false witness had meant to do to the other. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

New Heart English Bible
then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then shall ye do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so shalt thou remove the evil from among you.

World English Bible
then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Young's Literal Translation
'Then ye have done to him as he devised to do to his brother, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst,

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Context
The Testimony of Two or Three Witnesses
18The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother, 19you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you. 20Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:21
Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

Deuteronomy 22:21
she shall be brought to the door of her father's house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father's house. So you must purge the evil from among you.

Proverbs 19:5
A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.

Daniel 6:24
At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions--they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.


Treasury of Scripture

Then shall you do to him, as he had thought to have done to his brother: so shall you put the evil away from among you.

Then shall

Proverbs 19:5,9
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape…

Jeremiah 14:15
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

Daniel 6:24
And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.

so shalt

Deuteronomy 13:5
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.

Deuteronomy 17:7
The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.

Deuteronomy 19:20
And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.

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Verse 19. - Thought. The verb here used (זָמַם) means generally to meditate, to have in mind, to purpose; but it frequently has the subaudition of meditating evil (cf. Psalm 31:37; 37:12; Proverbs 30:32, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
you must do
וַעֲשִׂ֣יתֶם (wa·‘ă·śî·ṯem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 6213: To do, make

to him as
כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

he intended
זָמַ֖ם (zā·mam)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2161: To consider, purpose, devise

to do
לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת (la·‘ă·śō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6213: To do, make

to his brother.
לְאָחִ֑יו (lə·’ā·ḥîw)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 251: A brother, )

You must purge
וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥ (ū·ḇi·‘ar·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1197: To kindle, consume, to be, brutish

the evil
הָרָ֖ע (hā·rā‘)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

from among you.
מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ׃ (miq·qir·be·ḵā)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7130: The nearest part, the center


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