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Exodus 23:3-14 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

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.

10. `And six years thou dost sow thy land, and hast gathered its increase;

11. and the seventh thou dost release it, and hast left it, and the needy of thy people have eaten, and their leaving doth the beast of the field eat; so dost thou to thy vineyard--to thine oliveyard.

12. `Six days thou dost do thy work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest, so that thine ox and thine ass doth rest, and the son of thine handmaid and the sojourner is refreshed;

13. and in all that which I have said unto you ye do take heed; and the name of other gods ye do not mention; it is not heard on thy mouth.

14. `Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year;

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