Exodus 23:1-11 ▼

1 'Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

2 Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause others to turn aside;

3 and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.

4 'When thou meetest thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou dost certainly turn it back to him;

5 when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving it to it -- thou dost certainly leave it with him.

6 'Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

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

8 And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open -eyed, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

9 'And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye -- ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

10 'And six years thou dost sow thy land, and hast gathered its increase;

11 and the seventh thou dost release it, and hast left it, and the needy of thy people have eaten, and their leaving doth the beast of the field eat; so dost thou to thy vineyard -- to thine olive-yard.