| Exod. 20:16 |
"You shall not bear false witness against your
neighbor." |
| Exod. 23:1-3 |
"You shall not circulate a false report. Do not put
your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. You shall not follow a
crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after
many to pervert justice. You shall not show partiality to a poor man in his
dispute." |
| Deut. 19:16-21 |
"If a false witness rises against any man to testify
against him of wrongdoing, then both men in the controversy shall stand before
the Lord, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days. And the
judges shall make diligent inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false
witness, who has testified falsely against his brother, then you shall do to
him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil
person from among you. And those who remain shall hear and fear, and hereafter
they shall not again commit such evil among you. Your eye shall not pity; but
life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for
foot." |
| Est. 7:9-10 |
An example of the law followed:
"Now Harbonah, one of the
eunuchs, said to the king, 'Look! The *gallows, (Lit. tree or wood)
fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good on the king's
behalf, is standing at the house of Haman.' Then the king said, 'Hang him on
it!' So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.
Then the king's wrath subsided." |
Matt. 26:59-60 |
An example of the law not followed:
"Now the chief priests, the elders, and all the council sought false testimony
against Jesus to put Him to death, but found none. Even though many false
witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came
forward."
 Note: Of
course we know that Jesus was crucified. |
