What Deuteronomy's Prophetic Test Teaches About True Prophecy

Sifrei Devarim 151:1

Curated by Arthur·Told by Maggid·March 24, 2026

(Devarim 17:7) "The hand of the witnesses shall be against him first to kill him": It is a mitzvah for the witnesses to kill him.

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