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• Genesis 21:25

  Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

• Genesis 21:26

  Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”

• Genesis 21:27

  Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

• Genesis 21:28

  Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

• Genesis 21:29

  Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?”

• Genesis 21:30

  He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”

• Genesis 23:11

  “No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”

• Genesis 23:16

  Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.

• Genesis 23:17

  So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded

• Genesis 23:18

  to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

• Exodus 22:11

  the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn’t put his hand to his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

• Leviticus 5:1

  “‘If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

• Leviticus 24:14

  “Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

• Numbers 5:19

  The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

• Numbers 5:21

  then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

• Numbers 35:30

  “‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

• Deuteronomy 13:9

  but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

• Deuteronomy 17:5

  then you shall bring out that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.

• Deuteronomy 17:6

  At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

• Deuteronomy 17:7

  The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Deuteronomy 19:15

  One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

• Ruth 4:1

  Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. He said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He turned aside, and sat down.

• Ruth 4:2

  He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.

• Ruth 4:3

  He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.

• Ruth 4:4

  I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.” He said, “I will redeem it.”

• Ruth 4:5

  Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”

• Ruth 4:6

  The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.”

• Ruth 4:7

  Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of legalizing transactions in Israel.

• Ruth 4:8

  So the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” then he took off his shoe.

• Ruth 4:9

  Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.

• Ruth 4:10

  Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

• Ruth 4:11

  All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

• 1 Kings 8:31

  “If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

• 1 Kings 8:32

  then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

• Psalms 15:4

  In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;

• Proverbs 18:17

  He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

• Isaiah 8:2

  and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”

• Isaiah 8:3

  I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’

• Jeremiah 32:9

  I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

• Jeremiah 32:10

  I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.

• Jeremiah 32:11

  So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;

• Jeremiah 32:12

  and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.

• Jeremiah 32:25

  You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses;’ whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”

• Jeremiah 32:44

  Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return,” says Yahweh.

• Matthew 18:16

  But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

• Matthew 28:11

  Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all the things that had happened.

• Matthew 28:12

  When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers,

• Matthew 28:13

  saying, “Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

• Matthew 28:14

  If this comes to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry.”

• Matthew 28:15

  So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until today.

• John 8:17

  It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.

• Acts 6:11

  Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

• Acts 6:13

  and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

• Acts 7:58

  They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

• 2 Corinthians 13:1

  This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”

• 1 Timothy 5:19

  Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.

• Hebrews 10:28

  A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

• Revelation 11:3

  I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”