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

New Living Translation
“If a malicious witness comes forward and accuses someone of a crime,

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

Berean Standard Bible
If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,

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

New King James Version
If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

New American Standard Bible
If a malicious witness rises up against a person to testify against him of wrongdoing,

NASB 1995
“If a malicious witness rises up against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing,

NASB 1977
“If a malicious witness rises up against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing,

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

Amplified Bible
If a malicious witness rises up against a man to [falsely] accuse him of wrongdoing,

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

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if a false witness shall arise against a man and will testify evil against him;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if an unjust witness rise up against a man, alleging iniquity against him;

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

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

English Revised Version
If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is what you must do whenever a witness takes the stand to accuse a person falsely of a crime.

Good News Translation
If any of you try to harm another by false accusations,

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted witness against him;

Literal Standard Version
When a violent witness rises against a man to testify against him apostasy,

Majority Standard Bible
If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,

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

NET Bible
If a false witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime,

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

New Heart English Bible
If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

Webster's Bible Translation
If a false witness shall rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

World English Bible
If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

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

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Context
The Testimony of Two or Three Witnesses
15A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. 16If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime, 17both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.…

Cross References
Exodus 23:1
"You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.

Psalm 27:12
Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.

Proverbs 14:5
An honest witness does not deceive, but a dishonest witness pours forth lies.

Proverbs 19:5
A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.


Treasury of Scripture

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

a false witness

Exodus 23:1-7
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness…

1 Kings 21:10-13
And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die…

Psalm 27:12
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

that which is wrong.

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Deuteronomy 19
1. The cities of refuge
4. The privilege thereof for the manslayer
14. The landmark is not to be removed
15. At least two witnesses are required
16. the punishment of a false witness














Verse 16. - To testify against him that which is wrong; literally, to testify against him defection, i.e. from the Law of God. The speaker has apparently in view here all such defections from the Law as would entail punishment on the convicted offender. In Deuteronomy 13:5 [6], indeed, the crime described here as "that which is wrong" (margin, "falling away") is specially the crime of apostasy to idolatry; but the word (סָרָה), though usually expressing apostasy from Jehovah, has properly the general sense of a deflection from a prescribed course (from סוּר, to go off, to go aside), and so may describe any departure from what is constituted right.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

a false
חָמָ֖ס (ḥā·mās)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2555: Violence, wrong, by meton, unjust gain

witness
עֵד־ (‘êḏ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5707: A witness, testimony, a recorder, prince

testifies
לַעֲנ֥וֹת (la·‘ă·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

against someone,
בְּאִ֑ישׁ (bə·’îš)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

accusing him of a crime,
סָרָֽה׃ (sā·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5627: Turning aside, defection, apostasy, withdrawal


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