^{2 Ref} Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

^{3 Ref} But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.

^{4 Ref} If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him.

^{5 Ref} If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire.

^{6 Ref} Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

^{7 Ref} Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.

^{8 Ref} Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.

^{9 Ref} Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.