^16 (A)If a malicious witness rises up against a person to testify against him of wrongdoing, ¹⁷ then both people 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 And the judges ^(C)shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and he has testified against his brother falsely, ¹⁹ then ^(D)you shall do to him just as he had planned to do to his brother. So you shall eliminate the evil from among you. ²⁰ And ^(E)the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing among you. ²¹ So ^[a](F)you shall not show pity: ^(G)life for life, ^(H)eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.

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