Exodus 23:1-11 ▼

1 Thou shalt not haue to do with any false report, neither shalt thou put thine hand with the wicked, to be an vnrighteous witnesse.

2 Thou shalt not folow a multitude to do euill, neither shalt thou speake in a matter of iustice according to the greater number, for to peruert iudgement.

3 Neither shalt thou esteeme a poore man in his cause.

4 If thou meete thyne enemies oxe or asse goyng astray, thou shalt bryng them to him agayne.

5 If thou see the asse of him that hateth thee sincke vnder his burthen, thou shalt not passe by and let him alone, but shalt helpe hym to lyft hym vp agayne.

6 Thou shalt not hinder the right of thy poore in his suite.

7 Kepe thee farre from a false matter, and the innocent and righteous see thou slay not: for I wyll not iustifie the wicked.

8 Thou shalt take no gyftes: for gyftes blinde the seyng, and peruert the wordes of the righteous.

9 Thou shalt not oppresse a straunger: for ye know the heart of a straunger, seyng ye were straungers in the lande of Egypt.

10 Sixe yeres thou shalt sowe thy lande, and gather in the fruites therof.

11 And the seuenth yere thou shalt let it rest and lie styll, that the poore of thy people may eate: And what they leaue, the beastes of the fielde shall eate. In lyke maner thou shalt deale with thy vineyarde and thyne oliue tree.