1. “You must not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked to be a malicious witness.
2. “You must not follow a crowd in wrongdoing. Do not testify in a lawsuit and go along with a crowd to pervert justice.
3. Do not show favoritism to a poor person in his lawsuit.
4. “If you come across your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.
5. “If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it.
6. “You must not deny justice to a poor person among you in his lawsuit.
7. Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent and the just, because I will not justify the guilty.
8. You must not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words of the righteous.
9. You must not oppress a foreign resident; you yourselves know how it feels to be a foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
10. “Sow your land for six years and gather its produce.
11. But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it uncultivated, so that the poor among your people may eat from it and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.