| Chapter 23 |
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`Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness. |
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`Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause others to turn aside; |
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and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife. |
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`When thou meetest thine enemy`s ox or his ass going astray, thou dost certainly turn it back to him; |
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when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving it to it -- thou dost certainly leave it with him. |
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`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife; |
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from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man. |
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`And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open-eyed, and perverteth the words of the righteous. |
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`And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye -- ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.
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