Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not be after multitudes for evil; thou shalt not answer for the multitude to stretch out after multitudes to pervert justice.
New American Standard Bible
You shall not follow
King James Version
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
Holman Bible
“You must not follow a crowd in wrongdoing. Do not testify in a lawsuit and go along with a crowd to pervert justice.
International Standard Version
You are not to follow the majority in doing wrong, and you are not to testify in a lawsuit so as to follow the majority and pervert justice.
A Conservative Version
Thou shall not follow a multitude to do evil, neither shall thou speak in a case to turn aside after a multitude to distort [justice],
American Standard Version
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest justice :
Amplified
You shall not follow a crowd to do [something] evil, nor shall you testify at a trial or in a dispute so as to side with a crowd in order to pervert justice;
Bible in Basic English
Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:
Darby Translation
Thou shalt not follow the multitude for evil; neither shalt thou answer in a cause, to go after the multitude to pervert judgment.
King James 2000
You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you testify in a dispute to follow after a crowd to pervert judgment:
Lexham Expanded Bible
You will not {follow} a majority for evil, and you will not testify concerning a legal dispute to turn aside after a majority to pervert [justice].
Modern King James verseion
You shall not follow a multitude to do evil. Neither shall you speak in a cause in order to follow many in order to wrest judgment.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil: neither answer in a matter of plea that thou wouldest, to follow many, turn aside from the truth;
NET Bible
"You must not follow a crowd in doing evil things; in a lawsuit you must not offer testimony that agrees with a crowd so as to pervert justice,
New Heart English Bible
You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;
The Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt not follow multitudes to commit wickedness, - neither shalt thou answer in a quarrel, so as to turn away after multitudes to mislead,
Webster
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
World English Bible
"You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause others to turn aside;
Themes
Following » What not to follow after
Imitation » Of worldly people and customs condemned » In committing popular sins
Injustice » A bad example leads to
Sinful » The whole imitation of worldly people and customs condemned » In committing popular sins
Worldliness » Seen in the tendency to imitate worldly customs, etc » In committing popular sins
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 23:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Regulations Regarding Justice
1 Thou shalt not take up a false report: thou shalt not put thy hand with the unjust one to be a witness of wrong. 2 Thou shalt not be after multitudes for evil; thou shalt not answer for the multitude to stretch out after multitudes to pervert justice. 3 And the poor one thou shalt not make proud in his cause.
Cross References
Exodus 23:6-7
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy needy in his cause.
Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall not do evil in judgment; thou shalt not take up the face of the poor; thou shalt not reverence the face of the great: in justice shalt thou judge thy neighbor.
Deuteronomy 1:17
Ye shall not look upon faces in judgment; as the small so the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is to God; and the word which shall be hard for you, ye shall bring to me and I heard it
Genesis 6:12
And God shall see the earth, and lo, it was corrupted, for all flesh corrupted its way upon the earth.
Genesis 7:1
And Jehovah will say to Noah, Come thou, and all thy house into the ark, for thee I saw just to my face in this generation.
Genesis 19:4
Before the men of the city shall lie down, the men of Sodom surrounded the house about, from youth, even to old age, all the people from the end.
Genesis 19:7-9
And he will say, Now my brothers, ye shall not be evil.
Exodus 32:1-5
And the people will see that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, and the people will assemble to Aaron, and will say to him, Arise, make to us gods who shall go before us: for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egyt, we shall not know what was to him.
Numbers 14:1-10
And all the assembly will lift up and give their voice; and the people will weep in that night
Deuteronomy 16:19
Thou shalt not turn away Judgment; thou shalt not look upon and thou shalt not take a gift, for the gift will blind the eyes of the wise and will pervert the words of the just.
Deuteronomy 24:17
Thou shalt not turn away the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless; and thou shalt not take as a pledge the garment of the widow.
Joshua 24:15
And if evil in your eyes to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served which are beyond the river, and whether the gods of the Amorite which ye dwelt in their land: and I and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
1 Samuel 15:9
And Saul and the people will have pity upon Agag, and upon the good of the sheep, and the oxen and the double, and upon the lambs and upon all the good, and they were not willing to exterminate them: and every work despised and wasting away, they exterminated it
1 Kings 19:10
And he will say, Being zealous I was zealous for Jehovah the God of armies: for the sons of Israel forsook thy covenant; they tore down thine altars, and thy prophets they killed with the sword, and I alone shall be left; and they will seek my soul to take it
Job 31:34
, If I, shall fear a great multitude, and the contempt of families terrify me, and I will be silent and not go out of my door.
Psalm 72:2
He shall judge thy people in justice, and thy poor in judgment.
Proverbs 1:10-11
My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in.
Proverbs 1:15
My son, thou shalt not go in the way with them; withhold thy foot from their beaten paths:
Proverbs 4:14
In the path of the unjust thou shalt not go, and thou shalt not advance in the way of the wicked.
Jeremiah 37:15
And the chiefs will be angry against Jeremiah and they struck him, and gave him to the house of bonds the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they made it for a house of prison.
Jeremiah 37:21
And king Zedekiah will command, and they will commit Jeremiah to the enclosure of the prison, and giving to him a round of bread for the day from the street of the baker's, till all the bread was consumed out of the city. And Jeremiah dwelt in the enclosure of the prison.
Jeremiah 38:5-6
And king Zedekiah will say, Behold him in your hands; for the king will not be able a word with you.
Jeremiah 38:9
My lord the king, these men did evil all which they did to Jeremiah the prophet whom they cast into the pit; and he will die in his low place from the face of hunger, for no more bread in the city.
Ezekiel 9:9
And he will say to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah, great exceedingly, and the land will be filled with blood and the city being filled with wresting: for they said, Jehovah forsook the land, and Jehovah saw not
Haggai 1:4
Is the time for you, O ye, to dwell in your covered houses, and this house a waste?
Matthew 27:24-26
And Pilate, seeing that it profits nothing, but there is rather an uproar, having taken water, he washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this just one: ye shall see yourselves.
Mark 15:15
And Pilate, willing to satisfy the crowd, loosed to them Barabbas, and delivered Jesus, having scourged, that he might be crucified.
Luke 23:23-24
And they were urgent with great voices, asking for him to be crucified. And their voices and the chief priests' overcame.
Luke 23:51
(The same was not set together in the counsel and deed of them;) from Arimathea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.
John 7:50-51
Nicodemus says to them, (he having come to him by night, being one of them,)
Acts 24:27
And two years completed, Felix took Porcius Festus, a successor: and wishing to render a favor to the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.
Acts 25:9
And Festus, wishing to render a favor to the Jews, having answered Paul, said, Wilt thou, having gone up to Jerusalem, there be judged by me of these things?
Romans 1:32
Who knowing the justice of God, that they doing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also approve those doing.
Galatians 2:11-13
And when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to the face, for he was to be rebuked.