| Geneva Study Bible Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. Wesley's Notes 23:1 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 it were not countenanced. Sometimes we cannot avoid hearing a false report, but we must not receive it, we must not hear it with pleasure, nor easily give credit to it. King James Translators' Notes raise: or, receive Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary CHAPTER 23 Ex 23:1-33. Laws concerning Slander, &c. 1. put not thine hand-join not hands. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 23:1-9 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 separation of Israel from the pagan world. Neither parties, friends, witnesses, nor common opinions, must move us to lessen great faults, to aggravate small ones, excuse offenders, accuse the innocent, or misrepresent any thing. | 
