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"Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.
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An Unchanged Command
Scholars note that while Moses provides updated reasoning for other commandments in this chapter (like the Sabbath), the prohibition against bearing false witness is presented without change from its form in Exodus 20. This verbatim repetition highlights the command's stable and foundational importance within God's law.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Compare Exodus 20 and notes.
Moses here adopts the Ten Words as a ground from which he may proceed to reprove, warn, and exhort; and repeats…
19th Century
Anglican
The wording of these four commandments is the same as that of Exodus 20:0.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on Deuteronomy 5:17).
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There is some variation here from Exodus 20, similar to the variation between the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 and Luke 11. It is more necessary that…
