SCRIPTURE
Exodus 23:1-9
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- 23:1
“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
- 23:2
You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.
- 23:3
And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.
- 23:4
If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.
- 23:5
If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.
- 23:6
You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.
- 23:7
Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.
- 23:8
Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
- 23:9
Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.