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Exodus 23:1-9 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

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.

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