Literary Discussions

Just now it occurs to me that "bearing false witness" is very different from the lie of the midwives.  There seems to be room for righteous deception of sorts.  Also, I find it amusing that courtrooms ask you to place your hand on a Bible and "swear to tell the whole truth" but if you search in a Strong's Exhaustive Concordance on "truth" then you may be surprised and the Ten Commandments only forbids false witness with no mention of truth. An argument may even be made that we do not have access to truth with certainty but we are only conscious of willful perjury.