Exodus 23:1
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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Exodus 20:16Do not give false witness against your neighbour.
Leviticus 19:11Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.
Deuteronomy 5:20Do not give false witness against your neighbour;
2 Samuel 16:3And the king said, And where is your master's son? And Ziba said, He is still at Jerusalem: for he said, Today Israel will give back to me the kingdom of my father.
1 Kings 21:10And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.
Psalms 27:12Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 23:1
This chapter continues and concludes the acts that passed in the first session (if I may so call it) upon Mount Sinai. Here are, I. Some laws of universal obligation, relating especially to the ninth commandment, against bearing false witness ( ver. 1 ), and giving false judgment, ver. 2, 3 , 6-8 . Also a law of doing good to our enemies ( ver. 4, 5 ), and not oppressing strangers, ver. 9 . II. Some laws peculiar to the Jews. The sabbatical year ( ver. 10, 11 ), the three annual feasts ( ver. 14-17 ), with some… Read the whole commentary →