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