Quotes about Deception
After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
— Exodus 2:12
Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”
— Exodus 5:9
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
— Exodus 20:16
So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, let him take it off,’ and they gave it to me. And when I threw it into the fire, out came this calf!”
— Exodus 32:24
“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor
— Leviticus 6:2
or finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit—
— Leviticus 6:3
You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
— Leviticus 19:11
Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, and behold, you have only blessed them!”
— Numbers 23:11
If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,
— Deuteronomy 13:1
and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,”
— Deuteronomy 13:2
If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,
— Deuteronomy 13:6
that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),
— Deuteronomy 13:13