Tree Of Life Version

Exodus 23:1-9 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

1. “Do not to spread a false report. Do not join hands with the wicked by becoming a malicious witness.

2. “Do not follow a crowd to do evil. Nor are you to testify in a case, to follow a crowd and pervert justice.

3. On the other hand, nor should you takes sides with a poor man in his case.

4. “If you find your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you must surely bring it back to him again.

5. If you see the donkey of the one that hates you lying down under its burden, do not leave it. Rather, you are to release it with him.

6. “You are not to pervert justice to your poor in his dispute.

7. Stay far away from a false charge. Do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the guilty.

8. Take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight, and perverts the words of the righteous.

9. “Do not oppress an outsider, for you know the heart of an outsider, since you were outsiders in the land of Egypt.