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"You shall not give a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked person to be a malicious witness.

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

"You shall not follow the crowd in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to join together with a crowd in order to pervert justice;

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

nor shall you show favor to a poor person in his dispute.

Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

"If you encounter your enemy's ox or his donkey wandering away, you must return it to him.

If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

"If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall not leave it helpless for its owner; you must arrange the load with him.

If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

"You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

"Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.

Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

"You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just.

And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

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

Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.