Exodus 23

¹Thou shalt not receiue a false tale, neyther shalt thou put thine hande with the wicked, to be a false witnes.

²Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do euil, neither agree in a controuersie to decline after many and ouerthrowe the trueth.

³Thou shalt not esteeme a poore man in his cause.

⁴If thou meete thine enemies oxe, or his asse going astray, thou shalt bring him to him againe.

⁵If thou see thine enemies asse lying vnder his burden, wilt thou cease to helpe him? thou shalt helpe him vp againe with it.

⁶Thou shalt not ouerthrowe the right of thy poore in his sute.

⁷Thou shalt keepe thee farre from a false matter, and shalt not slaye the innocent and the righteous: for I will not iustifie a wicked man.

⁸Thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the wordes of the righteous.

⁹Thou shalt not oppresse a stranger: for ye knowe the heart of a stranger, seeing yee were strangers in the land of Egypt.

¹⁰Moreouer, sixe yeres thou shalt sowe thy land, and gather the fruites thereof,

¹¹But the seuenth yeere thou shalt let it rest and lie still, that the poore of thy people may eat, and what they leaue, the beastes of the fielde shall eate. In like maner thou shalt doe with thy vineyard, and with thine oliue trees.

¹²Sixe dayes thou shalt do thy worke, and in the seuenth day thou shalt rest, that thine oxe, and thine asse may rest, and the sonne of thy maide and the stranger may be refreshed.