Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent and the just, because I will not justify the guilty.(A) You must not take a bribe,(B) for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words[a] of the righteous. You must not oppress a foreign resident;(C) you yourselves know how it feels to be a foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:8 Or and subverts the cause

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