Deuteronomy Chapter 19 verse 16 Holy Bible
If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing,
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If a false witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done wrong,
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If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of an offence;
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If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
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If a false witness shall rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
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If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing,
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`When a violent witness doth rise against a man, to testify against him apostacy,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
