Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 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
Topics
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 23:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Regulations Regarding Justice
1 You shall not raise a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 2 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. 3 And you should not favor a poor man in his cause.
Cross References
Exodus 23:6-7
You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his cause.
Leviticus 19:15
You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. You shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
Deuteronomy 1:17
You shall not respect persons in judgment. 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 to me, and I will hear it.
Genesis 6:12
And God looked upon the earth. And, behold, it was corrupted! For all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.
Genesis 7:1
And Jehovah said to Noah, You and all your house come into the ark, for I have seen you righteous before Me in this generation.
Genesis 19:4
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter.
Genesis 19:7-9
And he said, I pray you, brothers, do not act evilly.
Exodus 32:1-5
And the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, and the people gathered themselves to Aaron. And they said to him, Up! Make us gods who shall go before us. For this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know 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 respect persons, nor take a gift. For a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not pervert the rightful judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing to pledge.
Joshua 24:15
And if it seems evil to you to serve Jehovah, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served Beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
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 completely destroy them. But everything that was vile and feeble they completely destroyed.
1 Kings 19:10
And he said, I have been very zealous for Jehovah the God of Hosts. For the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, thrown down Your altars, and have slain Your prophets with the sword. And I, I alone, am left. And they seek to take my life away.
Job 31:34
then let me tremble before a great multitude, and be terrified by the scorn of families; and I will be silent and not go out the door.
Psalm 72:2
He will judge Your people in righteousness, and Your poor with judgment.
Proverbs 1:10-11
My son, if sinners lure you, do not be willing.
Proverbs 1:15
My son, do not walk in the way with them! Keep back your foot from their path,
Proverbs 4:14
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not into the way of evil.
Jeremiah 37:15
And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison, the house of Jonathan the scribe. For they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah 37:21
And Zedekiah the king commanded that they should put Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him a piece of bread out of the bakers' street daily, until all the bread in the city was gone. So 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 cannot do a thing 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 thrown into the pit. And he is likely to die of hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread in the city.
Ezekiel 9:9
And He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is great, and the land is full of blood, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, Jehovah has forsaken the land; and, Jehovah does not see.
Haggai 1:4
Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your finished houses, and shall this House lie waste?
Matthew 27:24-26
But when Pilate saw that it gained nothing, but rather that a tumult was made, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. You see to it.
Mark 15:15
And deciding to do the easiest to the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them, and having scourged Him, delivered up Jesus to be crucified.
Luke 23:23-24
But they pressed on him, with loud voices, requesting that He might be crucified. And their voices and those of the chief priests prevailed.
Luke 23:51
this one was not assenting to their counsel and deed. He was from Arimathea, a city of the Jews; and he also himself waited for the kingdom of God.
John 7:50-51
Nicodemus said to them, (he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them),
Acts 24:27
But after two years Felix welcomed a successor, Porcius Festus. And wishing to show a favor to the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.
Acts 25:9
But Festus, wanting to please the Jews, answered Paul and said, Will you go up to Jerusalem and be judged there before me about these things?
Romans 1:32
who, knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those practicing them.
Galatians 2:11-13
But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was to be blamed.