OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 23:1

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“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

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Verse 1. Lie, by countenancing calumny. Judges must never do any thing which they know to be unjust, whatever the witnesses may assert. The person who speaks against his neighbour, would injure him, if he had an opportunity. Quintel.—Hebrew “Thou shalt not raise a false report.” Bible.

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