Deuteronomy 5:20
(5-17) Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
In Context
19(5-17) Neither shalt thou steal.
Cross References
Exodus 23:1Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
1 Kings 21:13And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him; and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying: 'Naboth did curse God and the king.' Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
Proverbs 19:5A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that breatheth forth lies shall not escape.
Malachi 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers; and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not Me, saith the LORD of hosts.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 5:7-23
6 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them… Read the whole commentary →