^16 (A)If a malicious witness rises up against a man to ^[a]accuse him of ^[b]wrongdoing, ¹⁷ then both the men who have the dispute shall stand ^(B)before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days. ¹⁸ The judges ^(C)shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and he has ^[c]accused his brother falsely, ¹⁹ then ^(D)you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you. ^20 (E)The rest will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing among you. ²¹ Thus ^[d](F)you shall not show pity: ^(G)life for life, ^(H)eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

¹¹ Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.”