Lexham English Bible

Deuteronomy 19:16-21 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

16. If a malicious witness gets up to accuse anyone to testify against him falsely,

17. then the two men to whom the legal dispute pertains shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.

18. Then judges shall make a thorough inquiry, and if it turns out that the witness is a false witness and he testified falsely against his brother,

19. then you shall do to him as he meant to do to his brother, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

20. And the rest shall hear and shall fear, and they shall not continue to do such a thing again as this evil thing in your midst.

21. You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.”