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Deuteronomy 5:20

Truth and honestyWords and speechIntegrity

18 You shall not commit adultery.

19 You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

21 You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

22 The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

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BSB
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
KJV
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
WEB
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
ASV
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.
DARBY
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
BLB
And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
ÅB
Og du skal ikke si falskt vitnesbyrd mot din neste.
OTB
‘Du skal ikke vitne falskt mot din neste.
B1930
Og du skal ikke si falskt vidnesbyrd mot din næste.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Exodus 20:16

    You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

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  • Exodus 23:1

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

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  • Proverbs 19:9

    A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.

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  • Proverbs 19:5

    A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.

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  • Malachi 3:5

    “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

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  • Deuteronomy 19:16–21

    If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,

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  • Proverbs 6:19

    a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.

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  • 1 Kings 21:13

    And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.

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