Exodus 23:1-9 - Regulations Regarding Justice

¹ Thou shalt not accept a false report; extend not thy hand to the wicked, to be an unrighteous witness.

² Thou shalt not follow the multitude for evil; neither shalt thou answer in a cause, to go after the multitude to pervert judgment. ³ Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.

⁴ If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt certainly bring it back to him.

⁵ If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under its burden, beware of leaving it to him: thou shalt certainly loosen it with him.

⁶ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy poor in his cause. ⁷ Thou shalt keep far from the cause of falsehood; and the innocent and righteous slay not; for I will not justify the wicked. ⁸ And thou shalt take no bribe; for the bribe blindeth those whose eyes are open, and perverteth the words of the righteous. ⁹ And the stranger thou shalt not oppress; for ye know the spirit of the stranger, for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.