Exodus 23:1-11 ▼

1 You do not lift up a vain report; you do not put your hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

2 You are not after many to [do] evil, nor do you testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause [others] to turn aside;

3 and you do not honor a poor man in his strife.

4 When you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you certainly turn it back to him;

5 when you see the donkey of him who is hating you crouching under its burden, then you have ceased from leaving [it] to it—you certainly leave [it] with him.

6 You do not turn aside the judgment of your poor in his strife;

7 you keep far off from a false matter, and you do not slay an innocent and righteous man; for I do not justify a wicked man.

8 And you do not take a bribe, for the bribe binds the open-[eyed] and perverts the words of the righteous.

9 And you do not oppress a sojourner, since you have known the soul of the sojourner, for you have been sojourners in the land of Egypt.

10 And [for] six years you sow your land and have gathered its increase;

11 and [in] the seventh you release it, and have left it, and the needy of your people have eaten, and the beast of the field eats their remainder; so you do to your vineyard [and] to your olive-yard.