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# testimony, testify
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## Definition
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The terms "testimony" and "testify" refer to making a statement about something that one knows to be true. Often a person testifies about something he has experienced directly.
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* In the New Testament, this term is often used to refer to how Jesus' followers testified about the events of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection.
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* In the first five books of the Old Testament, the term "testimony" is used in a different way to refer to the Ten Commandments that God wrote on two stone tablets and gave to Moses for the Israelites to obey.
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* In the remainder of the Old Testament, "testimony" often refers more generally to God's rules, statutes, and laws.
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* These commands were a testimony to God's covenant relationship with his people.
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## Translation Suggestions
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* The term "testify" or "give testimony" could also be translated as, "tell the facts" or "tell what was seen or heard" or "give evidence" or "tell what happened."
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* As related to that meaning, the word "testimony" could be translated as, "report of what happened" or "statement of what is true" or "evidence" or "record of what they experienced." or "what has been said
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