(A)Keep far from a false charge, and (B)do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for (C)I will not acquit the guilty.

(D)You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and [a]subverts the cause of the just.

(E)You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the [b]feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:8 Or distorts the words
  2. Exodus 23:9 Lit soul

Have nothing to do with a false charge(A) and do not put an innocent(B) or honest person to death,(C) for I will not acquit the guilty.(D)

“Do not accept a bribe,(E) for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.

“Do not oppress a foreigner;(F) you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.

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