“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
⛓ Read Exodus 20 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'You shall not offer false testimony' verbatim from the Decalogue (Exodus 20:16 / Deuteronomy 5:20).
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Decalogue's prohibition 'you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.' The engineering of false testimony against Stephen is a flat violation of this command — diffuse background rather than a cited text, but part of the false-witness cluster.
Low confidence