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; ³and 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; ⁵when 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; ⁷from 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.

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