Exodus 23:1-11 ▼

1 “You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

2 You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a case so as to turn aside after the masses in order to cause justice to be turned aside;

3 nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his case.

4 “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.

5 If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him.

6 “You shall not cause the justice due to your needy brother to be turned aside in his case.

7 Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not justify the guilty.

8 “And you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just.

9 “And you shall not oppress a sojourner, since you yourselves know the soul of a sojourner, for you also were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

10 “Now you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its produce,

11 but on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. Thus you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.