(A)Keep yourself far from a false matter; (B)do not kill the innocent and righteous. For (C)I will not justify the wicked. And (D)you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.

“Also (E)you shall not oppress a [a]stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:9 sojourner

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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