Deuteronomy 19:16

English Standard Version 2016

If a malicious witness arises to accuse a person of wrongdoing,

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Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.

Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know.

and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law,

A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.

“‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.