If a false witness rise up against any man In a court of judicature:
to testify against him: that which is not true of him, let it be in what case it will; Aben Ezra instances in idolatry, but it holds good of any other.
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"In the inheritance which you will hold in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess, you shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set.
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"A single witness shall not prevail against a man for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed; only on the evidence of two witnesses, or of three witnesses, shall a charge be sustained.
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If a malicious witness rises against any man to accuse him of wrongdoing,
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then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days;
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the judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,
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