Parallel Verses

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:

New American Standard Bible

You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice;

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.

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.

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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Thou shalt not follow
אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 488

to do evil
רעה רע 
Ra` 
Usage: 669

ענה 
`anah 
Usage: 329

in a cause
רב ריב 
Riyb 
Usage: 60

אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 488

רב 
Rab 
Usage: 458

References

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Regulations Regarding Justice

1 You shall not raise a false report: put not your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 2  You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you testify in a dispute to follow after a crowd to pervert judgment: 3 Neither shall you be partial to a poor man in his cause.


Cross References

Exodus 23:6-7

You shall not pervert the justice of your poor in his dispute.

Leviticus 19:15

You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

Deuteronomy 1:17

You shall not respect persons in judgment; but you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

Genesis 6:12

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

Genesis 7:1

And the LORD said unto Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; for you have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 19:4

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

Genesis 19:7-9

And said, I pray you, brethren, do not act so wickedly.

Exodus 32:1-5

And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, who shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has become of him.

Numbers 14:1-10

And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not show partiality, neither take a bribe: for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 24:17

You shall not pervert the justice due the stranger, nor the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as pledge:

Joshua 24:15

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

1 Samuel 15:9

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but everything that was despised and worthless, that they destroyed utterly.

1 Kings 19:10

And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

Job 31:34

Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

Psalm 72:2

He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

Proverbs 1:10-11

My son, if sinners entice you, consent not.

Proverbs 1:15

My son, walk not in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:

Proverbs 4:14

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

Jeremiah 37:15

Therefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

Jeremiah 37:21

Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

Jeremiah 38:5-6

Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not able to do anything against you.

Jeremiah 38:9

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the cistern; and he is likely to die from hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.

Ezekiel 9:9

Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD sees not.

Haggai 1:4

Is it time for you, yourselves, to dwell in your paneled houses, and this house lie in ruins?

Matthew 27:24-26

When Pilate saw that he could gain nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see you to it.

Mark 15:15

And so Pilate, willing to satisfy the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

Luke 23:23-24

And they were urgent with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.

Luke 23:51

(The same had not consented to the council and the action of them;) he was of Arimathea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.

John 7:50-51

Nicodemus said unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)

Acts 24:27

But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' position: and Felix, willing to show the Jews a favor, left Paul bound.

Acts 25:9

But Festus, willing to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul, and said, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

Romans 1:32

Who knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Galatians 2:11-13

But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed.

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