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Exodus 20

Ex. 20:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou shalt not bear
`anah (Hebrew #6030)
properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extens. to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce
KJV usage: give account, afflict (by mistake for 6031), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for 6031), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, X scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also 1042, 1043.
Pronounce: aw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
false
sheqer (Hebrew #8267)
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
KJV usage: without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, + lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.
Pronounce: sheh'-ker
Origin: from 8266
c witness
`ed (Hebrew #5707)
concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince
KJV usage: witness.
Pronounce: ayd
Origin: contracted from 5749
against thy neighbor
rea` (Hebrew #7453)
from 7462; an associate (more or less close)
KJV usage: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, X (an-)other.
Pronounce: ray'-ah
Origin: or reya2 {ray'-ah}
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Ex. 23:6‑7• 6Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
7Thou shalt keep far from the cause of falsehood; and the innocent and righteous slay not; for I will not justify the wicked.
(Ex. 23:6‑7)
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Lev. 19:11,16• 11Ye shall not steal, and ye shall not deal falsely, and ye shall not lie one to another.
16Thou shalt not go about as a talebearer among thy people; thou shalt not stand up against the life of thy neighbour: I am Jehovah.
(Lev. 19:11,16)
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Deut. 19:15‑21• 15One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
16If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of an offence;
17then both the men between whom the controversy is shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days;
18and the judges shall make thorough inquiry; and if the witness be a false witness, and he have testified falsely against his brother,
19then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.
20And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in thy midst.
21And thine eye shall not spare: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
(Deut. 19:15‑21)
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1 Sam. 22:8‑19• 8that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that informs me when my son has made a covenant with the son of Jesse; and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or informs me that my son has stirred up my servant as a lier-in-wait against me, as at this day?
9Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
10And he inquired of Jehovah for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
11Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob; and they came all of them to the king.
12And Saul said, Hear now, son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.
13And Saul said to him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me as a lier-in-wait, as at this day?
14And Ahimelech answered the king and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and has access to thy secret council, and is honourable in thy house?
15Was it to-day that I began to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king charge anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.
16And the king said, Thou shalt certainly die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.
17And the king said to the couriers that stood about him, Turn and put the priests of Jehovah to death; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not inform me. But the servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Jehovah.
18And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell on the priests, and put to death that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.
19And Nob, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword, both men and women, infants and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
(1 Sam. 22:8‑19)
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1 Kings 21:10‑13• 10and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, and they shall bear witness against him saying, Thou didst curse God and the king; and carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
11And the men of his city, the elders and the nobles that dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was written in the letter that she had sent to them:
12they proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people.
13And there came the two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him; and the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
(1 Kings 21:10‑13)
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Psa. 15:3• 3He that slandereth not with his tongue, doeth not evil to his companion, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour; (Psa. 15:3)
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Psa. 101:5‑7• 5Whoso secretly slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy; him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.
6Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
7He that practiseth deceit shall not dwell within my house; he that speaketh falsehoods shall not subsist in my sight.
(Psa. 101:5‑7)
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Prov. 10:18• 18He that covereth hatred hath lying lips, and he that sendeth forth a slander is a fool. (Prov. 10:18)
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Prov. 11:13• 13He that goeth about talebearing revealeth secrets; but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter. (Prov. 11:13)
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Matt. 26:59‑60• 59And the chief priests and the elders and the whole sanhedrim sought false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.
60And they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. But at the last two false witnesses came forward
(Matt. 26:59‑60)
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Acts 6:13• 13And they set false witnesses, saying, This man does not cease speaking words against the holy place and the law; (Acts 6:13)
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Eph. 4:31• 31Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice; (Eph. 4:31)
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1 Tim. 1:10• 10fornicators, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers; and if any other thing is opposed to sound teaching, (1 Tim. 1:10)
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2 Tim. 3:3• 3without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good, (2 Tim. 3:3)
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James 4:11• 11Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against his brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if thou judgest the law, thou art not doer of the law, but judge. (James 4:11)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.