Deuteronomy 5:20

20 'And you shall not falsely bear evidence against your neighbor.

Deuteronomy 5:20 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 5:20

(See Gill on Deuteronomy 5:17).

Deuteronomy 5:20 In-Context

18 'And you shall not commit adultery.
19 'And you shall not steal.
20 'And you shall not falsely bear evidence against your neighbor.
21 'And you shall not covet the wife of your neighbor, and you shall not crave the house of your neighbor, his field or his slave or his slave woman or his ox and his donkey or anything {that belongs to your neighbor}.'
22 "These words Yahweh spoke to your whole assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire and the very thick cloud [with] a loud voice, and {he did not add anything}, and [then] he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
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