Exodus 23:2-9
Holman Christian Standard Bible
2 “You must not follow a crowd in wrongdoing. Do not testify in a lawsuit and go along with a crowd to pervert justice.(A) 3 Do not show favoritism to a poor person in his lawsuit.
4 “If you come across your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.
5 “If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it.[a](B)
6 “You must not deny justice to a poor person among you in his lawsuit. 7 Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent and the just, because I will not justify the guilty.(C) 8 You must not take a bribe,(D) for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words[b] of the righteous. 9 You must not oppress a foreign resident;(E) you yourselves know how it feels to be a foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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- Exodus 23:5 Or load, you must refrain from leaving it to him; you must set it free with him
- Exodus 23:8 Or and subverts the cause
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