14And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
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Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-30)These laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint by laying a penalty upon those fleshly lusts which war against the soul. I. If a man, lusting after another woman, to get rid of his wife slander her and falsely accuse her, as not having the virginity she pretended to when he married her, upon the disproof of his slander he must be punished, Deut. 22:13-19. What the meaning of that…
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