Exodus 23:1 "Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.

English Standard Version
“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

New American Standard Bible
"You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

King James Bible
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You must not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked to be a malicious witness."

International Standard Version
"You are not to spread a false report, nor are you to join forces with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou shalt not accept a false report; extend not thy hand to the wicked, to be an unrighteous witness.

Young's Literal Translation
'Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

Cross References

Luke 3:14
And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said to them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.

John 7:51
Does our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he does?

Acts 6:11
Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.

Genesis 39:17
And she spoke to him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me:

Exodus 20:16
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Leviticus 19:11
You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

Deuteronomy 5:20
Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

Deuteronomy 19:16
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

Psalm 15:3
He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.

Psalm 35:11
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

23:1-9 In the law of Moses are very plain marks of sound moral feeling, and of true political wisdom. Every thing in it is suited to the desired and avowed object, the worship of one only God, and the separation of Israel from the pagan world. Neither parties, friends, witnesses, nor common opinions, must move us to lessen great faults, to aggravate small ones, excuse offenders, accuse the innocent, or misrepresent any thing.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 23

Ex 23:1-33. Laws concerning Slander, &c.

1. put not thine hand—join not hands.