New American Bible, Revised Edition

Exodus 23:1-9 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

1. You shall not repeat a false report. Do not join your hand with the wicked to be a witness supporting violence.

2. You shall not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When testifying in a lawsuit, you shall not follow the crowd in perverting justice.

3. You shall not favor the poor in a lawsuit.

4. When you come upon your enemy’s ox or donkey going astray, you must see to it that it is returned.

5. When you notice the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you should not desert him; you must help him with it.

6. You shall not pervert justice for the needy among you in a lawsuit.

7. You shall keep away from anything dishonest. The innocent and the just you shall not put to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.

8. Never take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the just.

9. You shall not oppress a resident alien; you well know how it feels to be an alien, since you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.