Avraham drew near, and said, *Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
Exodus 23:7 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) *Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Keep far from a false matter and [be very careful] not to condemn to death the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify and acquit the wicked. American Standard Version (1901) Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. Common English Bible Stay away from making a false charge. Don’t put an innocent person who is in the right to death, because I will not consider innocent those who do such evil. Catholic Public Domain Version You shall flee from lies. The innocent and the just you shall not kill. For I shun the impious. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked. |
Avraham drew near, and said, *Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
*You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation.*
Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the seed of the righteous will be delivered.
He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
*'You shall not steal; neither shall you deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
*'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people; neither shall you stand against the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. The LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Soldiers also asked him, saying, *What about us? What must we do?* He said to them, *Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.*
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;
Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All the people shall say, Amein.