Four precepts evidently addressed to those in authority as judges:

1. To do justice to the poor. Comparing Exodus 23:6, and Exodus 23:…

The “miscellaneous laws” are here continued. From Exodus 23:1 to Exodus 23:9 no kind of sequence in the laws can be traced; from Exodus 23:10 to th…

Keep thee far from a false matter. Since he seems to speak of perjury, which brings about the death of the innocent, some might perhaps pr…

Keep yourself far from a false matter
Or "word" ^F26 ; from receiving a false testimony, or taking the fal…

In the law of Moses are very plain marks of sound moral feeling, and of true political wisdom. Everything in it is suited to the desired and avowed…