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Deuteronomy 5:20

Truth and honestyWords and speechIntegrity

18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

19 Neither shalt thou steal.

Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto 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

    Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

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  • Exodus 23:1

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

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  • Proverbs 19:9

    A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

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  • Proverbs 19:5

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

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  • Malachi 3:5

    And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

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  • Deuteronomy 19:16–21

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

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  • Proverbs 6:19

    A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

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  • 1 Kings 21:13

    And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.

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