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Good News Translation

Deuteronomy 19:19

you are to receive the punishment the accused would have received. In this way your nation will get rid of this evil.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Evidence;   False Teachers;   Fear of God;   Judge;   Retaliation;   Rulers;   Slander;   Thompson Chain Reference - Evil;   Evil Put Away;   The Topic Concordance - Recompense/restitution;   Witness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Courts of Justice;   Slander;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Punishments;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Lie;   Priest;   Punishment;   Witness;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Law;   Lie, Lying;   Punishment;   Word;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Alms;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Witness;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Oath;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Accuser;   Capital Punishment;   Court Systems;   Crimes and Punishments;   Perjury;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Evil Speaking;   Justice;   Lie, Lying;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Law in the Old Testament;   Punishments;   Slander;   Witness;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Accusatory and Inquisitorial Procedure;   Alibi;   Calumny;   Capital Punishment;   Commandments, the 613;   Hammurabi;   Hatra'ah;   Lying;   Makkot;   Pharisees;   Suchostaver, Mordecai;   Torah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from you.
Hebrew Names Version
then shall you do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
King James Version
Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
Lexham English Bible
then you shall do to him as he meant to do to his brother, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.
English Standard Version
then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
New Century Version
must be punished. He must be punished in the same way the other person would have been punished. You must get rid of the evil among you.
New English Translation
you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
Amplified Bible
then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
New American Standard Bible
then you shall do to him just as he had planned to do to his brother. So you shall eliminate the evil from among you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then shall yee doe vnto him as hee had thought to doe vnto his brother: so thou shalt take euil away forth of the middes of thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
Contemporary English Version
then you will be punished without mercy. You will receive the same punishment the accused would have received if found guilty, whether it means losing an eye, a tooth, a hand, a foot, or even your life. Israel, the crime of telling lies in court must be punished. And when people hear what happens to witnesses that lie, everyone else who testifies in court will tell the truth.
Complete Jewish Bible
you are to do to him what he intended to do to his brother. In this way, you will put an end to such wickedness among you.
Darby Translation
then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.
Easy-to-Read Version
you must punish them with the same punishment the other person would have received. In this way you will remove this evil from your group.
George Lamsa Translation
Then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother; so shall you put the evil away from among you.
Literal Translation
then you shall do to him as he plotted to do to his brother. And you shall put away the evil from among you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
then shall ye do vnto him, euen as he thoughte to do vnto his brother: that thou mayest put awaye the euell from the that
American Standard Version
then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to do unto his brother: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
Bible in Basic English
Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then shall ye do vnto hym, as he had thought to do vnto his brother, & thou shalt put euyll away from the middes of thee.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
then shall ye do unto him, as he had purposed to do unto his brother; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
King James Version (1611)
Then shall ye doe vnto him, as he had thought to haue done vnto his brother: so shalt thou put the euil away from among you.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
then shall ye do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and thou shalt remove the evil from yourselves.
English Revised Version
then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to do unto his brother: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
Berean Standard Bible
you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from among you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
thei schulen yelde to hym, as he thouyte to do to his brother; and thou schalt do awey yuel fro the myddis of thee, that othere men here,
Young's Literal Translation
`Then ye have done to him as he devised to do to his brother, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst,
Update Bible Version
then you shall do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then shall ye do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so shalt thou remove the evil from among you.
World English Bible
then shall you do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
New King James Version
then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you.
New Living Translation
you must impose on the accuser the sentence he intended for the other person. In this way, you will purge such evil from among you.
New Life Bible
then you should do to him just what he wanted to do to his brother. In this way you will get rid of the sin among you.
New Revised Standard
then you shall do to the false witness just as the false witness had meant to do to the other. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to de unto his brother, - so shalt thou consume the wicked thing out of thy midst;
Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall render to him as he meant to do to his brother, and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee:
Revised Standard Version
then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

Contextual Overview

14 "Do not move your neighbor's property line, established long ago in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 15 "One witness is not enough to convict someone of a crime; at least two witnesses are necessary to prove that someone is guilty. 16 If any of you try to harm another by false accusations, 17 both of you are to go to the one place of worship and be judged by the priests and judges who are then in office. 18 The judges will investigate the case thoroughly; and if you have made a false accusation, 19 you are to receive the punishment the accused would have received. In this way your nation will get rid of this evil. 20 Then everyone else will hear what happened; they will be afraid, and no one will ever again do such an evil thing. 21 In such cases show no mercy; the punishment is to be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Then shall: Proverbs 19:5, Proverbs 19:9, Jeremiah 14:15, Daniel 6:24

so shalt: Deuteronomy 13:5, Deuteronomy 17:7, Deuteronomy 19:20, Deuteronomy 21:20, Deuteronomy 21:21, Deuteronomy 22:21, Deuteronomy 22:24, Deuteronomy 24:7

Reciprocal: Judges 20:13 - put away 2 Samuel 16:3 - day Jeremiah 34:17 - behold Matthew 5:38 - An eye 1 Timothy 5:19 - two

Cross-References

Genesis 12:13
Tell them that you are my sister; then because of you they will let me live and treat me well."
Genesis 19:1
When the two angels came to Sodom that evening, Lot was sitting at the city gate. As soon as he saw them, he got up and went to meet them. He bowed down before them
Genesis 19:7
He said to them, "Friends, I beg you, don't do such a wicked thing!
Genesis 19:11
Then they struck all the men outside with blindness, so that they couldn't find the door.
Genesis 19:14
Then Lot went to the men that his daughters were going to marry, and said, "Hurry up and get out of here; the Lord is going to destroy this place." But they thought he was joking.
Genesis 19:16
Lot hesitated. The Lord , however, had pity on him; so the men took him, his wife, and his two daughters by the hand and led them out of the city.
Genesis 19:17
Then one of the angels said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won't be killed."
Genesis 19:19
You have done me a great favor and saved my life. But the hills are too far away; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die before I get there.
Genesis 19:22
Hurry! Run! I can't do anything until you get there." Because Lot called it small, the town was named Zoar.
Genesis 19:25
and destroyed them and the whole valley, along with all the people there and everything that grew on the land.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother,.... Inflict the same fine or punishment on him he thought to have brought his brother under by his false testimony of him; whether any pecuniary fine, or whipping and scourging, or the loss of a member, or the value of it, or death itself; whether stoning, strangling, burning, or killing with the sword: though, in the case of accusing a priest's daughter of adultery, as Jarchi observes, such were not to be burnt, as would have been her case if proved, but strangled:

so shalt thou put the evil away from among you; the evil man that bears a false testimony of his brother, or the guilt of sin which would be incurred by conniving at him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal references.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 19:19. Then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother — Nothing can be more equitable or proper than this, that if a man endeavour to do any injury to or take away the life of another, on detection he shall be caused to undergo the same evil which he intended for his innocent neighbour.

Some of our excellent English laws have been made on this very ground. In the 37th of Edw. III., chap. 18, it is ordained that all those who make suggestion shall incur the same pain which the other should have had, if he were attainted, in case his suggestions be found evil. A similar law was made in the 38th of the same reign, chap. 9. By a law of the twelve Tables, a false witness was thrown down the Tarpeian rock. In short, false witnesses have been execrated by all nations.


 
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