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Exodus 23:1-11 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

1. “Do not bring a false report. Do not put your hand with the wrong to be a malicious witness.

2. “Do not follow a crowd to do evil, nor bear witness in a strife so as to turn aside after many, to turn aside what is right.

3. “And do not favour a poor man in his strife.

4. “When you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall certainly return it to him.

5. “When you see the donkey of him who hates you lying under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall certainly help him.

6. “Do not turn aside the right-ruling of your poor in his strife.

7. “Keep yourself far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I do not declare the wrong right.

8. “And do not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the seeing one and twists the words of the righteous.

9. “And do not oppress a sojourner, as you yourselves know the heart of a sojourner, because you were sojourners in the land of Mitsrayim.

10. “And for six years you are to sow your land, and shall gather its increase,

11. but the seventh year you are to let it rest, and shall leave it, and the poor of your people shall eat. And what they leave, the beasts of the field eat. Do the same with your vineyard and your oliveyard.

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