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Shemot 23:3-10 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

3. Neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his riv (cause, lawsuit).

4. If thou meet thine enemy's shor (ox) or his chamor (donkey) going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

5. If thou see the chamor of him that hateth thee lying under his massa, and wouldest refrain from helping him, thou shalt surely help with him.

6. Thou shalt not pervert the mishpat of thy poor in his riv (cause, lawsuit).

7. Keep thee far from a devar sheker (false matter); and the naki (innocent) and tzaddik slay thou not; for I will not acquit the rashah.

8. And thou shalt take no shochad (bribe, gift); for the shochad blindeth the seeing, and perverteth the words of the tzaddikim.

9. Also thou shalt not oppress a ger; for ye know the nefesh of a ger, seeing ye were gerim in Eretz Mitzrayim.

10. And shesh shanim thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the crops thereof;

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