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Exodus 23:3-15 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

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.

12. “Six days you are to do your work, and on the seventh day you rest, in order that your ox and your donkey might rest, and the son of your female servant and the sojourner be refreshed.

13. “And in all that I have said to you take heed. And make no mention of the name of other mighty ones, let it not be heard from your mouth.

14. “Three times in the year you are to observe a festival to Me:

15. “Guard the Festival of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Aḇiḇ – for in it you came out of Mitsrayim – and do not appear before Me empty-handed;

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