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Exodus 23:5-12 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

5. When you notice the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you should not desert him; you must help him with it.

6. You shall not pervert justice for the needy among you in a lawsuit.

7. You shall keep away from anything dishonest. The innocent and the just you shall not put to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.

8. Never take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the just.

9. You shall not oppress a resident alien; you well know how it feels to be an alien, since you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.

10. For six years you may sow your land and gather in its produce.

11. But the seventh year you shall let the land lie untilled and fallow, that the poor of your people may eat of it and their leftovers the wild animals may eat. So also shall you do in regard to your vineyard and your olive grove.

12. For six days you may do your work, but on the seventh day you must rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and that the son of your maidservant and the resident alien may be refreshed.

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