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Exodus 23:1-12 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

1. "You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

2. You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice;

3. nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his dispute.

4. "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.

5. If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him.

6. "You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.

7. Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.

8. "You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just.

9. "You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10. "You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield,

11. but on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

12. "Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as your stranger, may refresh themselves.

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