Exodus 23:1-8 ▼

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.