Exodus 23:1-9 - Regulations Regarding Justice

1 You shall not raise a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

2 You shall not follow a multitude to do evil. Neither shall you speak in a cause in order to follow many in order to wrest judgment. 3 And you should not favor a poor man in his cause.

4 If you meet your enemy's ox or his ass going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

5 If you see the ass of him who hates you lying under his burden, and would hold back from helping him, you shall surely help him.

6 You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his cause. 7 Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked. 8 And you shall take no bribe, for the bribe blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. 9 Also you shall not oppress a stranger. For you know the heart of a stranger, since you were strangers in the land of Egypt.