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Scripture Context
Exodus 23:0 - Exodus 23:10
Exodus 23
Intro: Sundry laws -- An angel promised.
1 Thou shalt not raise a false report; put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous 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;
3 Neither shalt thou countenance a wicked 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, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of 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 gift; for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
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.
10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof;