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Exodus 23:1

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¶ Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Thou shalt not raise {H5375} a false {H7723} report {H8088}: put {H7896} not thine hand {H3027} with the wicked {H7563} to be an unrighteous {H2555} witness {H5707}.

"You are not to repeat false rumors; do not join hands with the wicked by offering perjured testimony.

“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.

Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

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Cross-References

  • Psalms 101:5 (13 votes)

    Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

  • Proverbs 19:5 (10 votes)

    ¶ A false witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies shall not escape.

  • Deuteronomy 19:16 (7 votes)

    If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him [that which is] wrong;

  • Deuteronomy 19:21 (7 votes)

    And thine eye shall not pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Exodus 20:16 (6 votes)

    Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

  • Matthew 26:59 (6 votes)

    Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;

  • Matthew 26:61 (6 votes)

    And said, This [fellow] said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.