23 Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. ² Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou ^[a]speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest justice: ³ neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.

⁴ If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. ⁵ If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, ^[b]thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release it with him.

⁶ Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause. ⁷ Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. ⁸ And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the ^[c]words of the righteous. ⁹ And a sojourner shalt thou not oppress: for ye know the heart of a sojourner, seeing ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.