Exodus Chapter 23 verse 1 Holy Bible
Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
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Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.
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Thou shalt not accept a false report; extend not thy hand to the wicked, to be an unrighteous witness.
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Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
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Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
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"You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
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`Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - The ninth commandment is here expanded and developed. Thou shalt not raise a false report, forbids the origination of a calumny; the other clause prohibits the joining with others in spreading one. Both clauses have a special reference to bearing witness in a court, but neither would seem to be confined to it.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersXXIII.(1-19) The "miscellaneous laws" are here continued. From Exodus 23:1 to Exodus 23:9 no kind of sequence in the laws can be traced; from Exodus 23:10 to the first clause of Exodus 23:19 there is, on the contrary, a certain connection, since the laws enunciated are concerned with ceremonial observance. The closing law, however, is not ceremonial, but the prohibition of a practice considered to be cruel. On the whole, it may be said that The Book of the Covenant maintains its unsystematic character to the close. (See Note on Exodus 20:22-26.) . . .
