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.

The women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, circumspect, faithful in all things.

without natural affection, covenant breakers, slanderers, intemperate, ungentle, despisers of the good,

that the aged women, in like manner, be of behavior becoming holiness, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,

Laying aside therefore all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings,

and did not find it, though many false witnesses came forward. But afterwards, two coming forward

saying, I have sinned, betraying innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see you to it.

Then they bribed men who said, We heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.

But that I may not further weary you, I beg you to hear us briefly, with your clemency.