Exodus 23

1 Ref Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

2 Ref Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest `justice':

3 Ref neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.

4 Ref If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

5 Ref If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release `it' with him.

6 Ref Thou shalt not wrest the justice `due' to thy poor in his cause.

7 Ref Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

8 Ref And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

9 Ref And a sojourner shalt thou not oppress: for ye know the heart of a sojourner, seeing ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

10 Ref And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof:

11 Ref but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, `and' with thy oliveyard.

12 Ref Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.

13 Ref And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

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