Holy Scripture

Deuteronomy 17:6

A church father on this verse
“"Two angels, however, appeared there." For just so many honorary companions were required by the Word of God, which usually prescribes "two witnesses." Moreover, the women, returning from the sepulcher and from this vision of the angels were foreseen by Isaiah, when he says, "Come, you women, who return from the visio…”
Tertullian, 3th c. — AGAINST MARCION 4.43.2

Source: Septuagint

Original

6He shall die on the testimony of two or three witnesses; a man who is put to death shall not be put to death for one witness.

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4and it be told thee, and thou shalt have inquired diligently, and, behold, the thing really took place, this abomination has been done in Israel;

5then shalt thou bring out that man, or that woman, and ye shall stone them with stones, and they shall die.

— Deuteronomy 17:6 —

7And the hand of the witnesses shall be upon him among the first to put him to death, and the hand of the people at the last; so shalt thou remove the evil one from among yourselves.

8And if a matter shall be too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;

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