And said: The Hebrew servant, whom thou last brought, came to me to abuse me.
Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.
Then the high priests rent his garments, saying: He hath blasphemed; what further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now you have heard the blasphemy:
A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies, shall perish.
A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
The lip of truth shall be steadfast for ever: but he that is a hasty witness, frameth a lying tongue.
My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; for they are many that make war against me.
But I, as a deaf man, heard not: and as a dumb man not opening his mouth.
And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest Israel?
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
She called to her the men of her house, and said to them: See, he hath brought in a Hebrew, to abuse us. He came in to me, to lie with me: and when I cried out,
For a proof therefore of her fidelity, she kept the garment, and shewed it to her husband when he returned home:
And when he heard me cry, he left the garment which I held, and fled out.
A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth worketh ruin.