Deuteronomy 5:20
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Deuteronomy 5:20 in other translations
| BSB | You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. |
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| WEB | “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. |
| ASV | Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor. |
| YLT | ‘Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour--a false testimony. |
| DARBY | Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. |
| BBE | Do not give false witness against your neighbour; |
| Webster | Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor. |
What does Deuteronomy 5:20 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 5:6-20
6-20. I am the Lord thy God--The word "Lord" is expressive of authority or dominion; and God, who by natural claim as well as by covenant relation was entitled to exercise supremacy over His people Israel, had a sovereign right to establish laws for their government. [See on Ex 20:2.] The commandments which follow are, with a few slight verbal alterations, the same as formerly recorded (Ex 20:1-17), and in some of…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 5:6-22
There is some variation here from Ex 20 as between the Lord's prayer in Mt 6 and Lu 11. It is more necessary that we tie ourselves to the things, than to the words unalterably. The original reason for hallowing the sabbath, taken from God's resting from the work of creation on the seventh day, is not here mentioned. Though this ever remains in force, it is not the only reason. Here it is taken from Israel's…
Deuteronomy 5:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 5:20
- Exodus 20:16
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
- Exodus 23:1
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- Proverbs 19:9
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
- Proverbs 19:5
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
- Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
- Deuteronomy 19:16-21
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. …
- Proverbs 6:19
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
- 1 Kings 21:13
And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
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Context
- Deuteronomy 5:19
Neither shalt thou steal.
- Deuteronomy 5:20
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
- Deuteronomy 5:21
Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
Deuteronomy 5:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No dirás falso testimonio contra tu prójimo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et tu ne diras point de faux témoignage contre ton prochain. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und du sollst kein falsches Zeugnis ablegen wider deinen Nächsten. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | nec loqueris contra proximum tuum falsum testimonium. |