![]() ![]() KJV, ASV, DARBY, BBE, WBS, NASB, KJ2000, MSTC, MKJV, ACV. Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. ⇒ See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord. It also determines in special cases the value of the sin-offering to be presented ( Shebuoth, 4:2 v. On the contrary, the Talmud not only notices the subject at greater length, but ordains more severe penalties for perjury: scourging and full reparation when any serious injury has been done (Mishna, Maccoth, 2:3 sq. 2:9), and no official public notice was taken of the perjured man, save by the censor (Ge 7:18 comp. Among the ancient Romans, also, the punishment of perjury was left with the gods (Cic. Hebenstreit, De sacrifcio a perjuro ojn- endo, Lips. 5:3, 21), and in the latter case satisfaction for the injury, with increase (comp. A sin-offering is provided for both (comp. Mt 7:29 Zec 8:17), but in the law only two sorts of perjury are noticed: 1, false testimony in judicial proceedings 2, a false assurance, confirmed by an oath, that one has not received or found a piece of property in question (Le 5:1 Le 6:2 sq. A faithful witness will not lie: but a deceitful witness uttereth a lie. An honest witness tells the truth a dishonest witness tells nothing but lies. King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan 'For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders. A faithful witness does not lie but an unjust witness kindles falsehoods. For out of the heart proceed euill thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnes, blasphemies. ![]() Perjury, therefore (שׁבֻעִת שֶׁקֶר, "false swearing"), was prohibited by the Hebrews in a religious point of view (Ex 20:7 Le 19:12 comp. A trustworthy witness is not false and he that speaks falsehood is a false witness. ![]() By the Mosaic law, perjury was strictly prohibited as a most heinous sin against God to whom the punishment of it is left, and who in Ex 20:7 expressly promises that he will inflict it, without ordaining the infliction of any punishment by the temporal magistrate except only in the case of a man falsely charging another with a crime, in which case the false witness was liable to the same punishment which would have been inflicted on the accused party if he had been found guilty but this not, indeed, as the punishment of perjury against God, but of false testimony. This is evidently a very heinous crime, as it is treating the Almighty with irreverence denying, or at least disregarding his omniscience profaning his name, and violating truth. Perjury is the willful taking of an oath in order to tell or to confirm anything known to be false. ![]()
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