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Deuteronomy 5:20

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20 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. [a]
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Deuteronomy 5:20 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 5:20

(See Gill on Deuteronomy 5:17).

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Deuteronomy 5:20 In-Context

18 You shall not commit adultery.
19 You shall not steal.
20 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
21 You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
22 The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

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  • [a]. Cited in Matthew 19:18, Mark 10:19, and Luke 18:20
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