Левит 19:16

Русский синодальный перевод

Не ходи переносчиком в народе твоем и не восставай на жизнь ближнего твоего. Я Господь.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

talebearer: Exodus 23:1, Psalms 15:3, Proverbs 11:13, Proverbs 20:19, Jeremiah 6:28, Jeremiah 9:4, Ezekiel 22:9, 1 Timothy 3:11, 2 Timothy 3:3, Titus 2:3, 1 Peter 2:1

stand: Exodus 20:16, Exodus 23:1, Exodus 23:7, 1 Kings 21:10-13, Matthew 26:60, Matthew 26:61, Matthew 27:4, Acts 6:11-13, Acts 24:4-9

Reciprocal: Genesis 9:5 - and at Ruth 2:2 - glean ears 1 Samuel 24:9 - General Psalms 50:20 - slanderest Psalms 101:5 - Whoso Proverbs 18:8 - words Ephesians 4:31 - evil speaking 1 Timothy 5:13 - wandering 1 John 3:15 - hateth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall not go up and down [as] a talebearer among thy people,.... The word used signifies a merchant, and particularly one that deals in drugs and spices, and especially a peddler in those things, that goes about from place to place to sell them; and such having an opportunity and making use of it to carry stories of others, and report them to their disadvantage, hence it came to be used for one that carries tales from house to house, in order to curry favour for himself, and to the injury of others; and such a man is a detestable person, and ought not to be encouraged, see 1 Timothy 5:13;

neither shall thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; either by bearing a false testimony, whereby his blood is in danger of being shed when innocent; or by being silent, and not hearing a testimony for him, whereby the shedding of his innocent blood might have been prevented; either way may be interpreted standing against it: the Jewish writers think, that a man by this law, is bound to do all he can to preserve the life of his neighbour, when it is by any means in danger, by drowning, or by thieves and wild beasts, so Jarchi:

I [am] the Lord; the just and righteous One, who will resent and punish for all unjust proceedings in courts of judicature, secret tale bearing, doing any injury to another, or not preventing it when in the power of his hands.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Stand against the blood of thy neighbor - Either, to put his life in danger by standing up as his accuser (compare Matthew 26:60); or, to stand by idly when thy neighbor’s life is in danger. Whichever interpretation we adopt, the clause prohibits that which might interfere with the course of justice.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 19:16. Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer — רכיל rachil signifies a trader, a pedlar, and is here applied to the person who travels about dealing in scandal and calumny, getting the secrets of every person and family, and retailing them wherever he goes. A more despicable character exists not: such a person is a pest to society, and should be exiled from the habitations of men.

Neither shalt thou stand against the blood, &c. — Thou shalt not be as a false witness, because by such testimony the blood-the life of an innocent man may be endangered.