Deuteronomy 19:16
Good News Translation
If any of you try to harm another by false accusations,

New Revised Standard Version
If a malicious witness comes forward to accuse someone of wrongdoing,

Contemporary English Version
If you accuse someone of a crime, but seem to be lying,

New American Bible
If a hostile witness rises against someone to accuse that person of wrongdoing,

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If a lying witness stand against a man, accusing him of transgression,

a false witness

Exodus 23:1-7 Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person. . . .

1 Kings 21:10-13 And suborn two men, sons of Belial, against him. and let them bear false witness; that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him, and so let him die. . . .

Psalm 27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

Psalm 35:11 Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.

Mark 14:55-59 And the chief priests and all the council sought for evidence against Jesus, that they might put him to death: and found none. . . .

Acts 6:13 And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place and the law.

that which is wrong.

Context
The Testimony of Two or Three Witnesses
15One witness shall not rise up against any man, whatsoever the sin or wickedness be: but in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall stand. 16If a lying witness stand against a man, accusing him of transgression,17Both of them, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord in the sight of the priests and the judges that shall be in those days.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:1
Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.

Psalm 27:12
Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

Proverbs 14:5
A faithful witness will not lie: but a deceitful witness uttereth a lie.

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

Deuteronomy 19:15
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