Hebrews 10:28
Good News Translation
Anyone who disobeys the Law of Moses is put to death without any mercy when judged guilty from the evidence of two or more witnesses.

New Revised Standard Version
Anyone who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy “on the testimony of two or three witnesses.”

Contemporary English Version
If two or more witnesses accused someone of breaking the Law of Moses, that person could be put to death.

New American Bible
Anyone who rejects the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A man making void the law of Moses dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A man making void the law of Moses dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses:

despised.

Hebrews 2:2 For if the word spoken by angels became steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward:

Numbers 15:30,31,36 But the soul that committeth any thing through pride, whether he be born in the land or a stranger (because he hath been rebellious against the Lord) shall be cut off from among his people: . . .

Deuteronomy 13:6-10 If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers, . . .

Deuteronomy 17:2-13 When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant, . . .

2 Samuel 12:9,13 Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. . . .

without.

Deuteronomy 19:13 Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of innocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.

Isaiah 27:11 Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

Jeremiah 13:14 And I will scatter them every man from his brother, and fathers and sons in like manner, saith the Lord: I will not spare, and I will not pardon: nor will I have mercy, but to destroy them.

Romans 9:15 For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. And I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.

James 2:13 For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

under.

Deuteronomy 17:2,6,7 When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant, . . .

Deuteronomy 19:15 One 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.

Matthew 18:16 And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand.

John 8:17 And in your law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.

2 Corinthians 13:1 Behold, this is the third time I am coming to you: In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word stand.

Context
A Call to Persevere
27But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries. 28A man making void the law of Moses dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses: 29How much more, do you think he deserveth worse punishments, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath esteemed the blood of the testament unclean, by which he was sanctified, and hath offered an affront to the Spirit of grace?…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:2
When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant,

Deuteronomy 17:6
By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he die that is to be slain. Let no man be put to death, when only one beareth witness against him.

Deuteronomy 19:15
One 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.

Matthew 18:16
And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand.

Hebrews 2:2
For if the word spoken by angels became steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward:

Hebrews 12:25
See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

Hebrews 10:27
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