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You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;
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Justice Over Majority Rule
Commentators explain that this verse's primary context is legal integrity. It commands judges and witnesses not to pervert justice simply to align with a popular verdict. This is a specific application of the ninth commandment against bearing false witness, urging truthfulness even when it's unpopular.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
These four commands, addressed to the conscience, are illustrations of the ninth commandment, mainly in reference to the giving of evidence in lega…
19th Century
Anglican
The “miscellaneous laws” are here continued. From Exodus 23:1 to Exodus 23:9 no kind of sequence in the laws can be traced; from Exodus 23:10 to th…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You shall not follow a multitude to do evil The Targums of Jerusalem and Jonathan add, but to do good. As in private…
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In the law of Moses are very plain marks of sound moral feeling, and of true political wisdom. Everything in it is suited to the desired and avowed…
