Holman Christian Standard Bible

Exodus 23:3-13 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

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.

12. “Do your work for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the foreign resident may be refreshed.

13. “Pay strict attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.