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Exodus 23:5-15 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

5. If you see the donkey of your enemy lying down under its burden, you will refrain from abandoning him. You will surely arrange it with him.

6. “ ‘You will not pervert the justice of your poor in his legal dispute.

7. You will stay far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and the righteous, because I will not declare the wicked righteous.

8. And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes the sighted blind and ruins the words of the righteous.

9. And you will not oppress an alien; you yourselves know the feelings of the alien, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

10. “ ‘And six years you will sow your land and gather its yield.

11. But the seventh you will let it rest and leave it fallow, and the poor of your people will eat, and their remainder the animals of the field will eat. You will do likewise for your vineyard and for your olive trees.

12. “ ‘Six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you will stop so that your ox and your donkey will rest and the son of your slave woman and the alien will be refreshed.

13. “ ‘And you will be attentive to all that I have said to you, and you will not profess the name of other gods; it will not be heard in your mouth.

14. “ ‘Three times in the year you will hold a festival for me.

15. You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you at the appointed time, the month of Abib, because in it you came out from Egypt, and no one will appear before me empty-handed.

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