Exodus 23:1-9
Justice and Mercy

1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

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2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]:

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3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

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

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5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

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6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

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

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8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

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9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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