Exodus 23:2-9

Various Laws

²Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest [justice]: ³neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.

⁴If thou meet thine enemy`s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. ⁵If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release [it] with him.

⁶Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to thy poor in his cause. ⁷Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

⁸And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

⁹And a sojourner shalt thou not oppress: for ye know the heart of a sojourner, seeing ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

The Sabbath and the Land