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Exodus 23:3-12 New King James Version (NKJV)

3. You shall not show partiality to a poor man in his dispute.

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

5. If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.

6. “You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute.

7. Keep yourself far from a false matter; do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.

8. And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.

9. “Also you shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10. “Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce,

11. but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field may eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

12. Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.

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