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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 23:7 Catholic Bible: Do not make false accusations, and do not put an innocent person to death, for I will condemn anyone who does such an evil thing. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/exodus/23-7.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/exodus/23-7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/exodus/23-7.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/exodus/1.htm">Exodus</a> > <a href="/gntd/exodus/23.htm">Chapter 23</a> > Verse 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/23-6.htm" title="Exodus 23:6">◄</a> Exodus 23:7 <a href="../exodus/23-8.htm" title="Exodus 23:8">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/exodus/23.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/exodus/23.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Do not make false accusations, and do not put an innocent person to death, for I will condemn anyone who does such an evil thing. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/exodus/23.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and those in the right, for I will not acquit the guilty.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/exodus/23.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Don't bring false charges against anyone or sentence an innocent person to death. I won't forgive you if you do. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/exodus/23.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />You shall keep away from anything dishonest. The innocent and the just you shall not put to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/exodus/23.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.</p><p class="hdg">far from</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/23-1.htm">Exodus 23:1</a> Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/19-11.htm">Leviticus 19:11</a> You shall not steal. You shall not lie: neither shall any man deceive his neighbour.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/19-16.htm">Deuteronomy 19:16-21</a> If a lying witness stand against a man, accusing him of transgression, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/22-23.htm">Job 22:23</a> If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/4-14.htm">Proverbs 4:14,15</a> Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/33-15.htm">Isaiah 33:15</a> He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/3-14.htm">Luke 3:14</a> And the soldiers also asked him, saying: And what shall we do? And he said to them: Do violence to no man, neither calumniate any man; and be content with your pay.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/4-25.htm">Ephesians 4:25</a> Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_thessalonians/5-22.htm">1 Thessalonians 5:22</a> From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves.</p><p class="hdg">the innocent</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/27-25.htm">Deuteronomy 27:25</a> Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to slay an innocent person: and all the people shall say: Amen.</p><p class="hdg">for I will not</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/34-7.htm">Exodus 34:7</a> Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and wickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Who renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the grandchildren unto the third and fourth generation.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/17-15.htm">Proverbs 17:15</a> He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../nahum/1-3.htm">Nahum 1:3</a> The Lord is patient, and great in power, and will not cleanse and acquit the guilty. The Lord's ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind, and clouds are the dust of his feet.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/1-18.htm">Romans 1:18</a> For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in injustice:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/2-5.htm">Romans 2:5,6</a> But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God: . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/exodus/23.htm">Justice and Mercy</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">6</span>Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment. <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl">Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.</span><span class="reftext">8</span>Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/1-18.htm">Romans 1:18</a></span><br />For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in injustice:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ephesians/4-25.htm">Ephesians 4:25</a></span><br />Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/18-23.htm">Genesis 18:23</a></span><br />And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/20-13.htm">Exodus 20:13</a></span><br />Thou shalt not kill.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/20-16.htm">Exodus 20:16</a></span><br />Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/34-7.htm">Exodus 34:7</a></span><br />Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and wickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Who renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the grandchildren unto the third and fourth generation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/19-16.htm">Leviticus 19:16</a></span><br />Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/25-1.htm">Deuteronomy 25:1</a></span><br />If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the judges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive to be just: and him whom they find to be wicked, they shall condemn of wickedness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/27-25.htm">Deuteronomy 27:25</a></span><br />Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to slay an innocent person: and all the people shall say: Amen.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/94-21.htm">Psalm 94:21</a></span><br />They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn innocent blood.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/119-29.htm">Psalm 119:29</a></span><br />Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have mercy on me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/17-15.htm">Proverbs 17:15</a></span><br />He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_corinthians/16-13.htm">Acquit</a> <a href="/genesis/47-3.htm">Business</a> <a href="/exodus/23-6.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/exodus/22-25.htm">Charge</a> <a href="/exodus/22-31.htm">Death</a> <a href="/1_peter/4-15.htm">Evil-Doer</a> <a href="/exodus/21-8.htm">False.</a> <a href="/exodus/20-21.htm">Far</a> <a href="/exodus/22-3.htm">Guilty</a> <a href="/genesis/42-34.htm">Honest</a> <a href="/genesis/44-10.htm">Innocent</a> <a href="/genesis/44-16.htm">Justify</a> <a href="/exodus/22-24.htm">Kill</a> <a href="/exodus/22-9.htm">Matter</a> <a href="/exodus/22-3.htm">Responsible</a> <a href="/exodus/9-27.htm">Righteous</a> <a href="/exodus/20-20.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/exodus/22-24.htm">Slay</a> <a href="/exodus/15-8.htm">Upright</a> <a href="/exodus/23-1.htm">Wicked</a> <a href="/exodus/23-6.htm">Wrong</a> <a href="/exodus/22-21.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/deuteronomy/5-11.htm">Acquit</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-14.htm">Business</a> <a href="/exodus/23-8.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/exodus/27-20.htm">Charge</a> <a href="/exodus/23-27.htm">Death</a> <a href="/1_samuel/24-13.htm">Evil-Doer</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-3.htm">False.</a> <a href="/exodus/23-9.htm">Far</a> <a href="/exodus/34-7.htm">Guilty</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-36.htm">Honest</a> <a href="/numbers/5-31.htm">Innocent</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/25-1.htm">Justify</a> <a href="/exodus/29-11.htm">Kill</a> <a href="/exodus/24-14.htm">Matter</a> <a href="/leviticus/5-3.htm">Responsible</a> <a href="/exodus/23-8.htm">Righteous</a> <a href="/exodus/23-33.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/exodus/29-16.htm">Slay</a> <a href="/exodus/23-8.htm">Upright</a> <a href="/leviticus/20-14.htm">Wicked</a> <a href="/leviticus/4-3.htm">Wrong</a> <a href="/exodus/23-9.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/exodus/23-7.htm">Exodus 23:7 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/exodus/23-7.htm">Exodus 23:7 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/exodus/23-7.htm">Exodus 23:7 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/exodus/23-7.htm">Exodus 23:7 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/exodus/23-7.htm">Exodus 23:7 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/exodus/23-7.htm">Exodus 23:7 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/exodus/23-7.htm">Exodus 23:7 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/exodus/23-7.htm">Exodus 23:7 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/exodus/23-7.htm">Exodus 23:7 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a acquit an and charge death do far for from guilty Have honest I innocent Keep kill not nothing or person put righteous the to will with<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/exodus/23-7.htm">OT Law: Exodus 23:7 Keep far from a false charge (Exo. 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