Êxodo 23:1-9

Leis acerca do Exercício da Justiça

1 “Ninguém faça declarações^[a] falsas nem seja cúmplice do ímpio, sendo-lhe testemunha mal-intencionada.

2 “Não acompanhe a maioria para fazer o mal. Ao testemunhar num processo, não perverta a justiça para apoiar a maioria,

3 nem para favorecer o pobre num processo.

4 “Se você encontrar perdido o boi ou o jumento que pertence ao seu inimigo, leve-o de volta a ele.

5 Se você vir o jumento de alguém que o odeia caído sob o peso de sua carga, não o abandone, procure ajudá-lo.

6 “Não perverta o direito dos pobres em seus processos.

7 Não se envolva em falsas acusações nem condene à morte o inocente e o justo, porque não absolverei o culpado.

8 “Não aceite suborno, pois o suborno cega até os que têm discernimento^[b] e prejudica a causa do justo.

9 “Não oprima o estrangeiro. Vocês sabem o que é ser estrangeiro, pois foram estrangeiros no Egito.

Êxodo 23:1-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 23

This chapter contains several laws, chiefly judicial, relating to the civil polity of Israel, as concerning witness borne and judgment made of cases in courts of judicature, without any respect to poor or rich, and without the influence of a bribe, Ex 23:1-3,6-8, concerning doing good to an enemy in case any of his cattle go astray, or fall under their burden, Ex 23:4,5, and of the oppression of a stranger, Ex 23:9, and then follow others concerning the sabbath of the seventh year, and of the seventh day, with a caution against the use of the names of idols, Ex 23:10-13, next are laws concerning the appearance of all their males at the three feasts, Ex 23:14-17, and concerning the slaying of the sacrifice of the passover, and bringing the first of the firstfruits of the land, Ex 23:18,19 and then a promise is made of sending an angel to them to bring them into the land of Canaan, where they should carefully avoid all idolatry, and show a just indignation against it, and serve the Lord, and then it would be well with them, Ex 23:20-26, and particularly it is promised, that the Lord would send his fear, and his hornets, before them, to destroy the inhabitants of the land, and drive out the rest by little and little, until they should possess the utmost borders of it, which are fixed, Ex 23:27-31, and the chapter is concluded with a direction not to make a covenant with these people, or their gods, nor suffer them to dwell among them, lest they should be a snare unto them, Ex 23:32,33.

Footnotes

• [a]. Ou "não espalhe notícias"
• [b]. Ou "os juízes"