Exodus 23:1-7 ▼

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.