Deuteronomy 5:20

20 Do not give false witness against your neighbour;

Deuteronomy 5:20 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 5:20

(See Gill on Deuteronomy 5:17).

Deuteronomy 5:20 In-Context

18 Do not be false to the married relation.
19 Do not take the property of another.
20 Do not give false witness against your neighbour;
21 Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.
22 These words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to me.
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