Justice for All

23 “You ^(A)shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an ^(B)unrighteous witness. ^2 (C)You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; ^(D)nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice. ³ You shall not show partiality to a ^(E)poor man in his dispute.

^4 (F)“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. ^5 (G)If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.

^6 (H)“You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute. ^7 (I)Keep yourself far from a false matter; ^(J)do not kill the innocent and righteous. For ^(K)I will not justify the wicked. ⁸ And ^(L)you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.

⁹ “Also ^(M)you shall not oppress a ^[a]stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

¹⁵ ‘You shall do no injustice in ^(A)judgment. You shall not ^(B)be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

³⁵ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume. ³⁶ You shall have ^(A)honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

^37 (B)‘Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them: I am the Lord.’ ”

¹⁴ And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not ^(A)oppress one another.

^17 (A)You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for ^(B)the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, ^(C)bring to me, and I will hear it.’

^19 (A)You shall not pervert justice; ^(B)you shall not ^[a]show partiality, ^(C)nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and ^[b]twists the words of the righteous. ²⁰ You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may ^(D)live and inherit the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Property Boundaries

^14 (A)“You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

^13 (A)“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. ¹⁴ You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. ¹⁵ You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, ^(B)that your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. ¹⁶ For ^(C)all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are ^[a]an abomination to the Lord your God.