Deuteronomy 5:20

20 Thou shalt not give false testimony against thy neighbour.

Deuteronomy 5:20 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 5:20

(See Gill on Deuteronomy 5:17).

Deuteronomy 5:20 In-Context

18 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
19 Thou shalt not steal.
20 Thou shalt not give false testimony against thy neighbour.
21 Thou shalt not desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field or his manslave or his maidslave, his ox or his ass or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
22 These words the LORD spoke unto all your congregation in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice, and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone and delivered them unto me.
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