New American Standard Bible 2020

Exodus 23:6-11

6“1You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute. 7 2Keep far from a false charge, and 3do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for 4I will not acquit the guilty.

8“5You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and 6subverts the cause of the just.

9“7You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the 8feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10“Now 9you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield, 11but in the seventh year you shall let it 10rest and lie uncultivated, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the animal of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

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Notes

1. Exodus 23:6 Ex 23:2, 3; Lev 19:15 ↩
2. Exodus 23:7 Ex 20:16; Ps 119:29; Eph 4:25 ↩
3. Exodus 23:7 Ex 20:13; Deut 27:25 ↩
4. Exodus 23:7 Ex 34:7; Deut 25:1; Rom 1:18 ↩
5. Exodus 23:8 Deut 10:17; 16:19; Prov 15:27; 17:8, 23; Is 5:22, 23 ↩
6. Exodus 23:8 Or distorts the words ↩
7. Exodus 23:9 Ex 22:21; Lev 19:33f; Deut 24:17f; 27:19 ↩
8. Exodus 23:9 Lit soul ↩
9. Exodus 23:10 Lev 25:1-7 ↩
10. Exodus 23:11 Lit drop ↩

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