Exodus 23:7 - Easy To Read Version

⁷ “Be very careful if you say that a person is guilty of something. Don’t make false charges against a person. Never allow an innocent person to be killed as punishment for something he did not do. Any person who kills an innocent man is evil, and I will not pardon (forgive) that person.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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

⁷ 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)

⁷ 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

⁷ 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

⁷ 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

⁷ Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.

Exodus 23:7 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 18:23

Then Abraham approached the Lord and asked, “Lord, do you plan to destroy the good people while you are destroying the evil people?

Job 22:23

Job, come back to God All-Powerful,\par and you will be restored.\par But, you must remove the evil\par from your house.\par

Psalm 119:29

Lord, don’t let me live a lie.\par Guide me with your teachings.\par

Psalm 94:21

Those judges attack good people.\par They say that innocent people are guilty\par and kill them.\par

Exodus 20:13

“You must not murder anyone.

Exodus 20:16

“You must not tell lies about other people. [129]

Exodus 23:1

“Don’t tell lies against other people. If you are a witness in court, then don’t agree to help a bad person tell lies.

Exodus 34:7

The Lord shows his kindness to thousands {of generations}. The Lord forgives [340] people for the wrong things they do. But the Lord does not forget to punish guilty people. The Lord will punish not only the guilty people, but their children, their grandchildren, and their great-grandchildren will suffer for the bad things those people do. [341] ”

Proverbs 11:21

It is true that evil people will surely be punished. And good people will be made free.

Proverbs 17:15

The Lord hates these two things—punishing someone that has done nothing wrong, and forgiving someone that is guilty.

Isaiah 33:15

Good, honest people that refuse to hurt others for money—\{they will live through that fire\}. Those people refuse to take bribes. They refuse to listen to plans to murder other people. They refuse to look at plans for doing bad things.

Isaiah 5:20

Those people say that good things are bad, and bad things are good. Those people think light is darkness, and darkness is light. Those people think sour is sweet, and sweet is sour.

Leviticus 19:11

“You must not steal. You must not cheat people. You must not lie to each other.

Leviticus 19:16

You must not go around spreading false stories against other people. Don’t do anything that would put your neighbor’s life in danger. I am the Lord!

Nahum 1:3

The Lord is patient.\par But he is also very powerful!\par And the Lord will punish guilty people.\par He will not let them go free.\par The Lord \{is coming to punish bad people\}.\par He will use whirlwinds and storms\par to show his power.\par \{A man walks\} on the dust \{on the ground\}.\par But the Lord walks on the clouds!\par

Luke 3:14

The soldiers asked John, “What about us? What should we do?”

Romans 1:18

God shows his anger from heaven against all the evil and wrong things that people do. They have the truth, but by their evil lives they hide it.

Ephesians 4:25

So you must stop telling lies. You must always speak the truth to each other, because we all belong to each other in the same body.

Deuteronomy 25:1

“When two people have an argument, they should go to the court. The judges will decide which person is right and which person is wrong.

Deuteronomy 27:25

“{The Levites will say,} ‘Cursed is the person that takes money to kill an innocent person!’

1 Thessalonians 5:22

And stay away from everything that is evil.