Deuteronomy 19:19
Good News Translation
you are to receive the punishment the accused would have received. In this way your nation will get rid of this evil.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

New American Bible
you shall do to the false witness just as that false witness planned to do to the other. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall render to him as he meant to do to his brother, and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They shall render to him as he meant to do to his brother, and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee:

Then shall

Proverbs 19:5,9 A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies, shall not escape. . . .

Jeremiah 14:15 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, whom I did not send, that say: Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

Daniel 6:24 And by the king's commandment, those men were brought that had accused Daniel: and they were cast into the lions' den, they and their children, and their wives: and they did not reach the bottom of the den, before the lions caught them, and broke all their bones in pieces.

so shalt

Deuteronomy 13:5 And that prophet or forger of dreams shall be slain: because he spoke to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage: to make thee go out of the way, which the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

Deuteronomy 17:7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the rest of the people: that thou mayst take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

Deuteronomy 19:20 That others hearing may fear, and may not dare to do such things.

Deuteronomy 21:20,21 And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings: . . .

Deuteronomy 22:21,24 They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee. . . .

Deuteronomy 24:7 If any man be found soliciting his brother of the children of Israel, and selling him shall take a price, he shall be put to death, and thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.

Context
The Testimony of Two or Three Witnesses
18And when after most diligent inquisition, they shall find that the false witness hath told a lie against his brother: 19They shall render to him as he meant to do to his brother, and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee:20That others hearing may fear, and may not dare to do such things.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:21
The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that you may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel hearing it may be afraid.

Deuteronomy 22:21
They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

Proverbs 19:5
A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies, shall not escape.

Daniel 6:24
And by the king's commandment, those men were brought that had accused Daniel: and they were cast into the lions' den, they and their children, and their wives: and they did not reach the bottom of the den, before the lions caught them, and broke all their bones in pieces.

Deuteronomy 19:18
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