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Exodus 23:1
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"You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
"‘You will not spread a false report. Do not lift your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
"You must not tell lies. If you are a witness in court, don't help a wicked person by telling lies.
"You must not give a false report. Do not make common cause with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
"You shall not give a false report; you shall not join hands with the wicked to be a malicious witness [promoting wrong and violence].
"You shall not give a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked person to be a malicious witness.
Thou shalt not receiue a false tale, neyther shalt thou put thine hande with the wicked, to be a false witnes.
"You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
The Lord said: Don't spread harmful rumors or help a criminal by giving false evidence.
"You are not to repeat false rumors; do not join hands with the wicked by offering perjured testimony.
Thou shalt not accept a false report; extend not thy hand to the wicked, to be an unrighteous witness.
"Don't tell lies against other people. If you are a witness in court, don't agree to help a bad person tell lies.
"You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
YOU shall not confirm a false report: do not stretch out your hand taking oaths with the guilty to become a false witness for him.
"Do not spread false rumors, and do not help a guilty person by giving false testimony.
“You must not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked to be a malicious witness.
You shall not utter a false report; You shall not put your hand with the wicked, to become a violent witness.
Thou shalt not accepte a vayne tale, that thou woldest manteyne the vngodly, and be a false wytnesse.
Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.
Thou shalt not haue to do with any false report, neither shalt thou put thine hand with the wicked, to be an vnrighteous witnesse.
Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to bee an vnrighteous witnesse.
Thou shalt not receive a vain report: thou shalt not agree with the unjust man to become an unjust witness.
Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
Thou schalt not resseyue a vois of leesyng, nether thou schalt ioyne thin hond, that thou seie fals witnessyng for a wickid man.
`Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
"You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
"You shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
"You must not pass along false rumors. You must not cooperate with evil people by lying on the witness stand.
"Do not tell a lie about someone else. Do not join with the sinful to say something that will hurt someone.
You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with the wicked to act as a malicious witness.
Thou shalt not utter a false report. Do not lay thy hand with a lawless man, to become a witness helping forward violence and wrong.
Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.
"You shall not utter a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man, to be a malicious witness.
"Don't pass on malicious gossip. "Don't link up with a wicked person and give corrupt testimony. Don't go along with the crowd in doing evil and don't fudge your testimony in a case just to please the crowd. And just because someone is poor, don't show favoritism in a dispute.
"You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
shalt not: Exodus 23:7, Exodus 20:16, Leviticus 19:16, 2 Samuel 16:3, 2 Samuel 19:27, Psalms 15:3, Psalms 101:5, Psalms 120:3, Proverbs 10:18, Proverbs 17:4, Proverbs 25:23, Jeremiah 20:10, Matthew 28:14, Matthew 28:15, Romans 3:8
raise: or, receive
an unrighteous witness: Deuteronomy 5:20, Deuteronomy 19:16-21, 1 Kings 21:10-13, Psalms 27:12, Psalms 35:11, Proverbs 6:19, Proverbs 12:17, Proverbs 19:5, Proverbs 19:9, Proverbs 19:28, Proverbs 21:28, Proverbs 24:28, Proverbs 25:18, Matthew 19:18, Matthew 26:59-61, Luke 3:14, Luke 19:8, Acts 6:11-13, Ephesians 4:25, 2 Timothy 3:3, 1 Peter 3:16, Revelation 12:10
Reciprocal: Genesis 39:17 - General Exodus 22:11 - that he hath not Deuteronomy 22:14 - General 1 Kings 21:11 - did as Jezebel Proverbs 14:5 - General Ezekiel 22:9 - men that carry tales 1 Corinthians 6:9 - unrighteous
Cross-References
Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou shalt not raise a false report,.... Of a neighbour, or of any man whatever, either secretly by private slanders, whispers, backbiting and tale bearing, by innuendos, detracting from his good name and credit, suggesting things false and wicked concerning him; or publicly in a court of judicature, bringing a false accusation, laying a false charge, and bearing a false testimony against him: or "thou shall not receive a false report" p; if there were not so many, that say, Report, and we will report it, that are ready to receive every ill thing of their neighbours, there would not be so many that would raise such ill things of them; everything of this kind should be discountenanced, and especially by judges in courts of judicature, who are chiefly spoken to and of in the context; these should not easily admit every charge and accusation brought; nor bear, or endure a false report, as the word also signifies, but discourage, and even punish it:
put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness; which is not a gesture used in swearing, such as with us, of putting the hand upon a book, which did not obtain so early; nor is there any instance of this kind in Scripture; the gesture used in swearing was either putting the hand under the thigh, which yet is questionable, or lifting of it up to heaven; but here it is expressive of confederacy, of joining hand in hand to carry on a prosecution in an unrighteous way, by bearing false testimony against another; and such were to be guarded against, and not admitted to give evidence in a cause, even a man that is known to be a wicked man, or to have been an unrighteous witness before; on the one hand, a man should be careful of joining with him in a testimony that is unrighteous; and, on the other hand, judges should take care not to suffer such to be witnesses. The Jews say q, that everyone that is condemned to be scourged, or has been scourged for some crime committed, is reckoned a wicked man, and he is not to be admitted a witness, nor his testimony taken.
p ×× ×ª×©× "non suscipies", V. L. Pegninus, Vatablus, Drusius, Fagius. q Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 3. sect. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
These four commands, addressed to the conscience, are illustrations of the ninth commandment, mainly in reference to the giving of evidence in legal causes. Compare 1 Kings 21:10; Acts 6:11.
Exodus 23:2
This verse might be more strictly rendered, âThou shalt not follow the many to evil; neither shalt thou bear witness in a cause so as to incline after the many to pervert justice.â
Exodus 23:3
Countenance - Rather, show partiality to a manâs cause because he is poor (compare Leviticus 19:15).
These four commands, addressed to the conscience, are illustrations of the ninth commandment, mainly in reference to the giving of evidence in legal causes. Compare 1 Kings 21:10; Acts 6:11.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XXIII
Laws against evil-speaking, 1.
Against bad company, 2.
Against partiality, 3.
Laws commanding acts of kindness and humanity, 4, 5.
Against oppression, 6.
Against unrighteous decisions, 7.
Against bribery and corruption, 8.
Against unkindness to strangers, 9.
The ordinance concerning the Sabbatical year, 10, 11.
The Sabbath a day of rest, 12.
General directions concerning circumcision, c., 13.
The three annual festivals, 14.
The feast of unleavened bread, 15.
The feast of harvest, and the feast of ingathering, 16.
All the males to appear before God thrice in a year, 17.
Different ordinances-no blood to be offered with leavened
bread-no fat to be left till the next day-the first fruits
to be brought to the house of God-and a kid not to be seethed
in its mother's milk, 18, 19.
Description of the Angel of God, who was to lead the people into
the promised land, and drive out the Amorites, c., 20-23.
Idolatry to be avoided, and the images of idols destroyed, 24.
Different promises to obedience, 25-27.
Hornets shall be sent to drive out the Canaanites, &c., 28.
The ancient inhabitants to be driven out by little and little,
and the reason why, 29, 30.
The boundaries of the promised land, 31.
No league or covenant to be made with the ancient inhabitants,
who are all to be utterly expelled, 32, 33.
NOTES ON CHAP. XXIII.
Verse Exodus 23:1. Thou shalt not raise a false report — Acting contrary to this precept is a sin against the ninth commandment. And the inventor and receiver of false and slanderous reports, are almost equally criminal. The word seems to refer to either, and our translators have very properly retained both senses, putting raise in the text, and receive in the margin. The original ×× ×ª×©× lo tissa has been translated, thou shalt not publish. Were there no publishers of slander and calumny, there would be no receivers and were there none to receive them, there would be none to raise them and were there no raisers, receivers, nor propagators of calumny, lies, &c., society would be in peace.
