“That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:”
She called her household servants. Look, she said to them, this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed. The accusation reverses the truth: she propositioned, he refused and ran; she claims he approached, she screamed. The lie is the inversion of what happened. The application: the accusation that inverts the actual sequence of events — the one who refused is accused of the approach — is the form of false testimony that is hardest to disprove.
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