Exodus 20:16
“Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbour.”
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Exodus 20:16 Context
14Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15Thou shalt not steale. 16Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbour. 17Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house, thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife, nor his man seruant, nor his maid seruant, nor his oxe, nor his asse, nor any thing that is thy neighbours. 18¶ And all the people saw the thundrings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountaine smoking: and when the people saw it, they remooued, and stood a farre off.
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Other Translations for Exodus 20:16
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
- King James Version
"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Do not give false witness against your neighbour.
- Basic English Bible
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
- Darby Bible
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
- Webster's Bible
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
- World English Bible
`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.
- Youngs Literal Bible
(20:13) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Exodus 20:16
20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness - This forbids, Speaking falsely in any matter, lying, equivocating, and any way devising and designing to deceive our neighbour. Speaking unjustly against our neighbour, to the prejudice of his reputation; And (which is the highest offence of both these kinds put together) Bearing false witness against him, laying to his charge things that he knows not, either upon oath, by which the third commandment, the sixth or eighth, as well as this, are broken, or in common converse, slandering, backbiting, tale - bearing, aggravating what is done amiss, and any way endeavouring to raise our own reputation upon the ruin of our neighbor's.