Verse 6

Exodus 23:6

American Standard Version

6 Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to thy poor in his cause.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לֹ֥א תַטֶּ֛ה מִשְׁפַּ֥ט אֶבְיֹנְ/ךָ֖ בְּ/רִיבֽ/וֹ
English Translation
You shall not distort the judgment of your poor in their dispute.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 23 Context
1 Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness... Focus ↗
2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside afte... Focus ↗
3 neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause. Focus ↗
4 If thou meet thine enemy`s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. Focus ↗
5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him,... Focus ↗
6 Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to thy poor in his cause.
7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not just... Focus ↗
8 And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of... Focus ↗
9 And a sojourner shalt thou not oppress: for ye know the heart of a sojourner, seeing ye were sojourn... Focus ↗
10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof: Focus ↗
11 but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and... Focus ↗
12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass... Focus ↗
13 And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other g... Focus ↗
14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. Focus ↗
15 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I comm... Focus ↗
16 and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sowest in the field: and the fe... Focus ↗
17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah. Focus ↗
18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feas... Focus ↗
19 The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God (Eloh... Focus ↗
20 Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which... Focus ↗
21 Take ye heed before him, and hearken unto his voice; provoke him not; for he will not pardon your tr... Focus ↗
22 But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy un... Focus ↗
23 For mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Pe... Focus ↗
24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utte... Focus ↗
25 And ye shall serve Jehovah your God (Elohim), and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will... Focus ↗
26 There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. Focus ↗
27 I will send my terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I... Focus ↗
28 And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hit... Focus ↗
29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beast... Focus ↗
30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit th... Focus ↗
31 And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilder... Focus ↗
32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. Focus ↗
33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve their gods,... Focus ↗