Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Exodus 23:1
Raise] RV 'take up,' i.e. give ear to. This is an extension of the ninth commandment: cp. the Arabic proverb, 'In wickedness the listener is the ally of the speaker.'
Raise] RV 'take up,' i.e. give ear to. This is an extension of the ninth commandment: cp. the Arabic proverb, 'In wickedness the listener is the ally of the speaker.'
CHAPTER XXIII _Laws against_ evil-speaking, 1. _Against_ bad company, 2. _Against_ partiality, 3. _Laws commanding acts of_ kindness _and_ humanity, 4, 5. _Against_ oppression, 6. _Against_ unri...
These four commands, addressed to the conscience, are illustrations of the ninth commandment, mainly in reference to the giving of evidence in legal causes. Compare 1 Kings 21:10; Acts 6:11. Exodus 2...
CHAPTER 23 FURTHER JUDGMENTS AND DIRECTIONS _ 1. Concerning unrighteous dealings of various kinds (Exodus 23:1)_ 2. Concerning the seventh year (Exodus 23:10) 3. Concerning the three feasts (Exodus...
EXODUS 23:1 R. JUSTICE. Form and substance also separate _this_ group from the Judgments and ally it with the Words of Yahweh in the Covenant Book. Circulating groundless reports (Exodus 23:1_ a_), co...
RAISE. utter, or take up. Same as Exodus 20:7. THE WICKED. a wicked one. Hebrew. _rash. a._ App-44....
Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 _The Book of the Covenant_ The -Book of the Covenant" (see Exodus 24:7 in explanation of the name) is the oldest piece of Hebrew legislation that we possess. The laws co...
Veracity and impartiality to be observed, especially in giving evidence in a court of law. Cf. (in H) Leviticus 19:15-18. 1A. A groundless report not to be given currency as might readily happen, for...
THOU SHALT NOT RAISE A FALSE REPORT, &C.— There is an ambiguity in the word תשׂא _tissa,_ which signifies no less _to spread_ false reports, than _to give credit_ to them when spread. Houbigant prefer...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 23 THOU SHALT NOT TAKE UP A FALSE REPORT: PUT NOT THY HAND WITH THE WICKED TO BE AN UNRIGHTEOUS WITNESS. (2) THOU SHALT NOT FOLLOW A MULTITUDE TO DO EVIL; NEITHER SHALT...
_THOU SHALT NOT RAISE A FALSE REPORT: PUT NOT THINE HAND WITH THE WICKED TO BE AN UNRIGHTEOUS WITNESS._ Thou shalt not raise a false report, х_ LO'_ (H3808) _ TISAA'_ (H5375)] - Thou shalt not take u...
23:1 accept (c-4) Others, 'raise.' to (d-12) Or 'unite not with.' witness. (e-19) Lit. 'a witness of violence.'...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 23 LAWS ABOUT HOW TO BE FAIR AND HOW TO BE KIND – VERSES 1-9 V1 Th...
Thou shalt not raise a false report. — The LXX. and Vulg. Translate, “Thou shalt not _receive_ a false report” — _i.e.,_ give it credit, accept it as true, and act upon it. This meaning accords well w...
XXIII. (1-19) 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 the first clause of...
לֹ֥א תִשָּׂ֖א שֵׁ֣מַע שָׁ֑וְא אַל ־תָּ֤שֶׁת י
CHAPTER XXII. _ THE LESSER LAW (continued)._ PART IV. Exodus 22:16 - Exodus 23:19. The Fourth section of this law within the law consists of enactments, curiously disconnected, many of them withou...
THE LESSER LAW. Exodus 20:18 - Exodus 23:33. With the close of the Decalogue and its universal obligations, we approach a brief code of laws, purely Hebrew, but of the deepest moral interest, confes...
LAWS OF CONDUCT AND WORSHIP Exodus 23:1 We may apply these various precepts to our own hearts. Many of them breathe the very spirit of Christ. We must watch our speech, so that no man's character may...
The enactments now recorded have to do with the administration of justice. A study of them reveals that true justice is always merciful and yet makes sterner demand than any moral code of laws. The di...
_Lie, by countenancing calumny. Judges must never do any thing which they know to be unjust, whatever the witnesses may assert. The person who speaks against his neighbour, would injure him, if he had...
CONTENTS This Chapter, like the two before it, contains an explanation in detail of the law given on Mount Sinai. The precepts against false witness, and false judgment, are enlarged upon: those rela...
"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
1._Thou shalt not receive _(margin) _a false report_. It might also be translated, Thou shalt not _raise_, or _stir up_: and, if this be preferred, God forbids us to invent calumnies; but, if we read,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...
THOU SHALT NOT RAISE A FALSE REPORT,.... Of a neighbour, or of any man whatever, either secretly by private slanders, whispers, backbiting and tale bearing, by innuendos, detracting from his good name...
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. Ver. 1. _Thou shalt not raise._] Neither raise nor receive it; neither be the tale bearer nor tal...
_Thou shalt not raise_ Or, _receive_, as the margin reads it, and as the Hebrew תשׂא _, tissa_, also signifies, or, _give credit to a false report._ Sometimes the _receiver_, in this case, is as bad a...
1 Of slander and false witnesse. 3.6 Of iustice. 4 Of charitablenesse. 10 Of the yeere of rest. 12 Of the Sabbath. 13 Of idolatrie. 14 Of the three feasts. 18 Of the blood and the fat of the sac...
FURTHER ORDINANCES REGARDING SOCIAL RELATIONS...
Thou shalt not raise a false report, undertake to testify of a promise or agreement which was not heard with your own ears. PUT NOT THINE HAND WITH THE WICKED TO BE AN UNRIGHTEOUS WITNESS, to charge y...
C. FIRST FORM OF THE LAW OF THE POLITICAL COMMONWEALTH Exodus 21:1 to Exodus 23:33 _a. Right of Personal Freedom (according to Bertheau, ten in number)_ 1Now these _are_ the judgments [ordinances] w...
INSISTENCE ON HONESTY (vs.1-9) Consistently with the language of law, the question of honesty is looked at from a negative viewpoint, that is, emphasizing what one should not do. How easily one may c...
RAISE: Or, receive...
1-9 In the law of Moses are very plain marks of sound moral feeling, and of true political wisdom. Every thing in it is suited to the desired and avowed object, the worship of one only God, and the se...
EXODUS CHAPTER 23 False witness and report forbidden, EXODUS 23:1. Right must not be wrested, EXODUS 23:2. He commands man to do good to his enemies, EXODUS 23:3. Bribes are forbidden,...
The study of this section of our book is eminently calculated to impress the heart with a sense d God's unsearchable wisdom and infinite goodness. It enables one to form some idea of the character of...
Exodus 23:1 circulate H5375 (H8799) false H7723 report H8088 put H7896 (H8799) hand H3027 wicked H7563 unrighteous...
EXPANSION OF THE TEN WORDS OF THE COVENANT (EXODUS 20:22 TO EXODUS 23:33). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly in chiastic form (see later), Yahweh expands on the Ten W...
REGULATIONS CONCERNING BEHAVIOUR TO ONE'S NEIGHBOUR (EXODUS 23:1). There is an interesting pattern to the following verses. (Compare Exodus 23:1 with Exodus 23:7;...
CONTENTS: Judgments on the national feasts. Instructions concerning the conquest of Canaan. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God's angels will keep the believer in the way, though it lay through...
Exodus 23:1. _Put not thine hand with the wicked,_ do not conspire or agree with them. Exodus 23:3. _Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man._ The meaning of this and the former verse is, there sha...
_Thou shalt not raise a false report._ SLANDER CHARACTERIZED, PROHIBITED, AND PUNISHED I. Slander is characterized. 1. Originating a false report. It may be from-- (1) Envy. (2) Carelessness. (3...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 23:1 Thou shalt not raise] = _TISSA_, FROM THE INF. _NAPA_, IN ITS SIMPLE SENSE, “to carry,” and in its ethical, “to bear about in the heart.” Hence _tissa_ is a pregnant word...
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT.—_Continued_. EXPOSITION EXODUS 23:1 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS—_continued_. The same want of logical arrangement appears in this chapter as in the preceding one. The first nine ve...
Thou shalt not raise a false report: [perjury] to put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. [In other words, conspiracy in perjury.] Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; [Yo...
shalt not Exodus 23:7 Exodus 20:16 Leviticus 19:16 2 Samuel 16:3 2
Thou shalt not raise, the margin reads, Thou shalt not receive a false report, for sometimes the receiver in this case is as bad as the thief; and a backbiting tongue would not do so much mischief, if...