Deuteronomy 19:16 If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse someone of a crime,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse someone of a crime,

English Standard Version
If a malicious witness arises to accuse a person of wrongdoing,

New American Standard Bible
"If a malicious witness rises up against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing,

King James Bible
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If a malicious witness testifies against someone accusing him of a crime,

International Standard Version
When a malicious witness takes the stand against a man and accuses him,

American Standard Version
If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a lying witness stand against a man, accusing him of transgression,

Darby Bible Translation
If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of an offence;

Young's Literal Translation
'When a violent witness doth rise against a man, to testify against him apostasy,

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

19:15-21 Sentence should never be passed upon the testimony of one witness alone. A false witness should suffer the same punishment which he sought to have inflicted upon the person he accused. Nor could any law be more just. Let all Christians not only be cautious in bearing witness in public, but be careful not to join in private slanders; and let all whose consciences accuse them of crime, without delay flee for refuge to the hope set before them in Jesus Christ.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

De 19:16-21. Punishment of a False Witness.

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 [158]Ex 21:23; see also Le 24:20).