Parallel Bible results for "Exodus 23:1-9"

Exodus 23:1-9

1 " 'You will not {spread} a false report. Do not lift your hand with [the] wicked to be a malicious witness.

1 “Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.

2 You will not {follow} a majority for evil, and you will not testify concerning a legal dispute to turn aside after a majority to pervert [justice].

2 “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd,

3 You will not be partial to a powerless [person] in his legal dispute.

3 and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.

4 " 'If you come upon the ox of your enemy or his donkey going astray, you will certainly bring it back to him

4 “If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it.

5 If you see the donkey of your enemy lying down under its burden, you will refrain from abandoning him. You will surely arrange [it] with him.

5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.

6 " 'You will not pervert the justice of your poor in his legal dispute.

6 “Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

7 You will stay far from a {false charge}, and do not kill [the] innocent and [the] righteous, because I will not declare [the] wicked righteous.

7 Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.

8 And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes [the] sighted blind and ruins [the] words of [the] righteous.

8 “Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.

9 And you will not oppress an alien; you yourselves know the feelings of the alien, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

9 “Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.