Leviticus 19:16

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Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

Likewise let their wives be grave, not tattlers, modest, faithful in all things.

without natural affections, covenant breakers, devilish, intemperate, furious, opposed to good,

likewise that the elderly women be reverent in demeanor, not tattlers, not given to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

Therefore having laid aside all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all calumniations;

And they found none. And many false witnesses having come forward, they found none.

saying, I sinned betraying the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? See thou to it.

Then they bribed men, saying, that we have heard him speaking words blasphemous against Moses and God.

But in order that I may not weary you excessively, I exhort you to hear us patiently according to your clemency.