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

Exodus 23:1-9

1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

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

2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

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 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

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

4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again

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

5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help 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 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

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

7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

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 thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth 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 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers 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.

The King James Version is in the public domain.