Exodus 23:1-9 - Regulations Regarding Justice

¹ 'Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

² Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause others to turn aside; ³ and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.

⁴ 'When thou meetest thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou dost certainly turn it back to him;

⁵ when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving it to it -- thou dost certainly leave it with him.

⁶ 'Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife; ⁷ from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man. ⁸ And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open -eyed, and perverteth the words of the righteous. ⁹ And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye -- ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.