Deuteronomy 5:20

Deuteronomy 5:20 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
• New International Version (NIV)“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"'And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
• New King James Version (NKJV)‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Context of Deuteronomy 5:20

18You must not have sex with another person's wife or husband. 19You must not take another person's things for yourself. You must not say false things against your neighbour. 21You must not want to take your neighbour's wife for yourself. You must not want his house or his land, or his servants, male or female. You must not want his ox or his donkey or anything else that belongs to your neighbour.’ 22These are the commands that the Lord spoke to you. You were all there together at the mountain. He spoke with a loud voice from the middle of a great fire. There was a cloud and it was very dark. He gave only those commands. Then he wrote them on two flat stones and he gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 5:20 word by word

וְלֹֽא־תַעֲנֶ֥ה בְרֵֽעֲךָ֖ עֵ֥ד שָֽׁוְא׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Neither shalt thou bearעָנָה‛ânâh · to answerH6030
• falseשָׁוְאshâv' shav · vanity: falseH7723
• witnessעֵד‛êd · witnessH5707
• against thy neighbourרֵעַrêa‛ rêya‛ · neighborH7453

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 5:20

• Deuteronomy 19:16Somebody may accuse another person because he wants to hurt him. He tells lies against him.
• Exodus 20:16You must not say false things against your neighbour.
• Exodus 23:1Do not make false reports. Do not tell lies in court to help wicked people.
• 1 Kings 21:13Then two wicked men came and they sat near to him. They accused Naboth so that the people could all hear them. They said, ‘Naboth has insulted God and the king.’ So the people took him outside the city. They threw stones at him until he was dead.
• Proverbs 6:19A person who tells lies in court. A person who causes trouble in a family.
• Proverbs 19:5If you tell lies in court, the judge will certainly punish you. You will not go free!
• Malachi 3:5At that time, I will come among you as your judge. I will speak clearly against those who have done wrong things. I will punish the magicians, the adulterers and those who tell lies against other people. I will punish those people who are cruel to their workers, or they deceive widows or children who have no family. And I will punish those who do not help foreigners who live among them. People who do those things show that they do not respect me.’ That is what the Lord Almighty says.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 5:20

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6-21Verses 6-21 Compare Mark 10:19 and Paul Ephesians 6:2-3 deal similarly with the same subject. Speaker and hearers recognized, however, a statutory and authoritative form of the laws in question, which, because it was familiar to both parties, needed not to be reproduced with verbal fidelity. Deuteronomy 5:12-15 The exhortation to observe the Sabbath and allow time of rest to servants (compare Exodus 23:12) is pointed by reminding the people that they too…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-22Verses 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 deliverance out of Egypt; for that…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16-20Jesus mentioned these five commands when asked, “What good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?” (Matthew 19:17–19; Mark 10:19; Luke 18:20).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 6-206-20. 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 them there is a distinct reference to…Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 5:20

• Commandments
• Decalogue
• False Teachers
• Law
• Obedience
• Table

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• Deuteronomy

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings