Leviticus 19:16

Verse Leviticus 19:16. Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer] רכיל rachil signifies a trader, a pedlar, and is here applied to the person who travels about dealing in scandal and calumny, getting the secrets of every person and family, and retailing them wherever he goes. A more despicable character exists not: such a person is a pest to society, and should be exiled from the habitations of men.

Neither shalt thou stand against the blood, c.] Thou shalt not be as a false witness, because by such testimony the blood-the life of an innocent man may be endangered.