Exodus 23:1-9 - Regulations Regarding Justice

¹ Thou shalt not take up a false report: thou shalt not put thy hand with the unjust one to be a witness of wrong.

² Thou shalt not be after multitudes for evil; thou shalt not answer for the multitude to stretch out after multitudes to pervert justice. ³ And the poor one thou shalt not make proud in his cause.

⁴ If thou shalt meet thine enemy's ox or his ass wandering, turning back, thou shalt turn him back to him.

⁵ If thou shalt see the ass of him hating thee, lying down under his load, and thou didst desist from cutting loose for him, releasing, thou shall release with him.

⁶ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy needy in his cause. ⁷ From the word of falsehood thou shalt go far away; and the innocent and the just one thou shalt not kill: for I will not justify the unjust one. ⁸ And thou shalt not take a gift; for the gift will blind the seeing, and will pervert just words. ⁹ Thou shalt not press the stranger: and ye knew the soul of the stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt