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.

It is needful that their wives, in like manner, be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, fierce, no lovers of good,

that aged women, in like manner, be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

Having, therefore, put away all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and envies, and all evil speakings,

and they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward. But afterward two false witnesses, coming forward,

saying, "I sinned, having betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You may see to that."

Then they suborned men, who said, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and against God."

"But, that I detain you no longer, I pray you to hear us briefly in your clemency.