Deuteronomy 19:19
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New International Version (©2011)
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 (©2007)
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 (©2001)
then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

New American Standard Bible (©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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from you.

International Standard Version (©2012)
do to him just as he intended to do to his relative. By doing this you will purge evil from your midst.

NET Bible (©2006)
you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
then do to him what he planned to do to the other person. You must get rid of this evil.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then shall you do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shall you put the evil away from among you.

American King James Version
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.

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.

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:

Darby Bible Translation
then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.

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.

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 put away the evil from the midst of 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,

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother,.... Inflict the same fine or punishment on him he thought to have brought his brother under by his false testimony of him; whether any pecuniary fine, or whipping and scourging, or the loss of a member, or the value of it, or death itself; whether stoning, strangling, burning, or killing with the sword: though, in the case of accusing a priest's daughter of adultery, as Jarchi observes, such were not to be burnt, as would have been her case if proved, but strangled:

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal references.

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother - Nothing can be more equitable or proper than this, that if a man endeavor to do any injury to or take away the life of another, on detection he shall be caused to undergo the same evil which he intended for his innocent neighbor.

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Geneva Study 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.

Deuteronomy 19:19 Parallel Commentaries
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The Testimony of Witnesses
…18And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother; 19Then 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. 20And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall from now on commit no more any such evil among you.

Deuteronomy 21:21 Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
Deuteronomy 22:21 she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you.
Proverbs 19:5 A false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever pours out lies will not go free.
Daniel 6:24 At the king's command, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought in and thrown into the lions' den, along with their wives and children. And before they reached the floor of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.