Deuteronomy 19:19
ContextNET © | you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge 1 evil from among you. |
NIV © | then do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from among you. |
NASB © | 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. |
NLT © | the accuser will receive the punishment intended for the accused. In this way, you will cleanse such evil from among you. |
MSG © | give him the same medicine he intended for the other party. Clean the polluting evil from your company. |
BBE © | Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you. |
NRSV © | 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. |
NKJV © | "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. |
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NET © | you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge 1 evil from among you. |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “you will burn out” (בִּעַרְתָּ, bi’arta). Like a cancer, unavenged sin would infect the whole community. It must, therefore, be excised by the purging out of its perpetrators who, presumably, remained unrepentant (cf. Deut 13:6; 17:7, 12; 21:21; 22:21-22, 24; 24:7). |