Deuteronomy 5:20

Easy-to-Read Version

‘You must not tell lies about other people.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.

King James Version
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Lexham English Bible
‘And you shall not falsely bear evidence against your neighbor.

English Standard Version
"‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

New Century Version
"You must not tell lies about your neighbor.

New English Translation
You must not offer false testimony against another.

Amplified Bible
'You shall not give false testimony [that is, lie, withhold, or manipulate the truth] against your neighbor (any person).

New American Standard Bible
'You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Neither shalt thou beare false witnesse against thy neighbour.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Contemporary English Version
Do not tell lies about others.

Complete Jewish Bible
When you heard the voice coming out of the darkness, as the mountain blazed with fire, you came to me, all the heads of your tribes and your leaders,

Darby Translation
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Good News Translation
"‘Do not accuse anyone falsely.

Christian Standard Bible®
Do not give dishonest testimony against your neighbor.

Literal Translation
And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt beare no false witnes against thy neghboure.

American Standard Version
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Bible in Basic English
Do not give false witness against your neighbour;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt not beare false witnesse agaynst thy neyghbour.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and ye said: 'Behold, the LORD our God hath shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the midst of the fire; we have seen this day that God doth speak with man, and he liveth.

King James Version (1611)
Neither shalt thou beare false witnesse against thy neighbour.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

English Revised Version
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Berean Standard Bible
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not speke fals witnessyng ayens thi neiybore.

Young's Literal Translation
`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour -- a false testimony.

Update Bible Version
Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

Webster's Bible Translation
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.

World English Bible
"Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.

New King James Version
"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

New Living Translation
"You must not testify falsely against your neighbor.

New Life Bible
‘Do not tell a lie about your neighbor.

New Revised Standard
Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Neither shalt thou testify against thy neighbour with a witness of falsehood:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Revised Standard Version
"'Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

THE MESSAGE
No lies about your neighbor.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Contextual Overview

⁶ ‘I am the Lord your God. I am the one who freed you from Egypt, where you were slaves. ⁷ ‘You must not worship any other gods except me. ⁸ ‘You must not make any idols. Don't make any statues or pictures of anything up in the sky or of anything on the earth or of anything down in the water. ⁹ Don't worship or serve idols of any kind, because I am the Lord your God. I hate for my people to worship other gods. People who sin against me become my enemies. And I will punish them, and their children, their grandchildren, and even their great-grandchildren. ¹⁰ But I will be very kind to people who love me and obey my commands. I will be kind to their families for thousands of generations! ¹¹ ‘You must not use the name of the Lord your God to make empty promises. If you do, the Lord will not let you go unpunished. ¹² ‘You must keep the Sabbath a special day like the Lord your God commanded. ¹³ Work six days a week and do your job, ¹⁴ but the seventh day is a day of rest in honor of the Lord your God. So on that day no one should work—not you, your sons and daughters, foreigners living in your cities or your men and women slaves. Not even your cattle, donkeys, and other animals should do any work! Your slaves should be able to rest just as you do. ¹⁵ Don't forget that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. The Lord your God brought you out of Egypt with his great power and made you free. That is why the Lord your God commands you to always make the Sabbath a special day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 19:16-21, Exodus 20:16, Exodus 23:1, 1 Kings 21:13, Proverbs 6:19, Proverbs 19:5, Proverbs 19:9, Malachi 3:5

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Exodus 20:0 and notes.

Moses here adopts the Ten Words as a ground from which he may proceed to reprove, warn, and exhort; and repeats them, with a certain measure of freedom and adaptation. Our Lord Mark 10:19 and Paul Ephesians 6:2-3 deal similarly with the same subject. Speaker and hearers recognized, however, a statutory and authoritative form of the laws in question, which, because it was familiar to both parties, needed not to be reproduced with verbal fidelity.

Deuteronomy 5:12-15

The exhortation to observe the Sabbath and allow time of rest to servants (compare Exodus 23:12) is pointed by reminding the people that they too were formerly servants themselves. The bondage in Egypt and the deliverance from it are not assigned as grounds for the institution of the Sabbath, which is of far older date (see Genesis 2:3), but rather as suggesting motives for the religious observance of that institution. The Exodus was an entrance into rest from the toils of the house of bondage, and is thought actually to have occurred on the Sabbath day or “rest” day.

Deuteronomy 5:16

The blessing of general well-being here annexed to the keeping of the fifth commandment, is no real addition to the promise, but only an amplification of its expression.

Deuteronomy 5:21

The “field” is added to the list of objects specifically forbidden in the parallel passage Exodus 20:17. The addition seems very natural in one who was speaking with the partition of Canaan among his hearers directly in view.