1. `Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.
2. `Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause [others] to turn aside;
3. and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.
4. `When thou meetest thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou dost certainly turn it back to him;
5. when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving [it] to it--thou dost certainly leave [it] with him.
6. `Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;
7. from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.
8. `And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open -[eyed], and perverteth the words of the righteous.
9. `And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye--ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.