^{16 Ref} `When a violent witness doth rise against a man, to testify against him apostacy,

^{17 Ref} then have both the men who have the strife stood before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who are in those days,

^{18 Ref} and the judges have searched diligently, and lo, the witness `is' a false witness, a falsehood he hath testified against his brother:

^{19 Ref} `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,

^{20 Ref} and those who are left do hear and fear, and add not to do any more according to this evil thing in thy midst;