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Exodus 23:1–9

Regulations Regarding Justice

23 “ ‘You will not spreada a false report. Do not lift your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. You will not followb a majorityc for evil, and you will not testify concerning a legal dispute to turn aside after a majorityd to pervert justice. You will not be partial to a powerless persone in his legal dispute.

“ ‘If you come upon the ox of your enemy or his donkey going astray, you will certainly bring it back to him. If you see the donkey of your enemy lying down under its burden, you will refrain from abandoning him. You will surely arrangef it with him.

“ ‘You will not pervert the justice of your poor in his legal dispute. You will stay far from a false charge,g and do not kill the innocent and the righteous, because I will not declare the wicked righteous.h And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes the sighted blind and ruins the words of the righteous. And you will not oppress an alien; you yourselves know the feelingsi of the alien, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

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