Mesorat%20hashas for Shevuot 69:15

שלח ביד עבדו וכו': ת"ר שלח ביד עבדו או שאמר להן הנתבע משביעני עליכם שאם אתם יודעין לו עדות שתבואו ותעידוהו יכול יהו חייבין ת"ל אם לא יגיד ונשא עונו

I adjure you, So-and-So and So-and-So, that if you know any testimony for me you should come and bear testimony for me'; and they knew testimony for him, but it was evidence of 'one witness from the mouth of another witness', or if one of them was a relative or [otherwise] ineligible [as a witness]; I might think they should be liable, therefore it is said, if he do not tell it, then he shall bear his iniquity<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. tuk tk shdh tk uk ot');">¹⁷</span> - with those who are eligible to tell, the verse deals.

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