Exodus 23:1-9 - Regulations Regarding Justice

¹ Thou shalt not admit a false rumour; put not thine hand with the wicked to be a false witness.

² Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause hiding behind many to wrest judgment; ³ neither shalt thou honour a poor man in his cause.

⁴ If thou should encounter thine enemy's ox or his ass astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

⁵ If thou see the ass of him that hates thee lying under his burden, will thou forbear to help him? Thou shalt surely help him to raise it up.

⁶ Thou shalt not pervert the rights of thy poor in his cause. ⁷ Keep thee far from a false matter; and slay thou not the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked. ⁸ And thou shalt take no bribe; for the bribe blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. ⁹ Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger, for ye know the state of the soul of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.