Doing Justice

1 "(A) You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a (B) malicious witness.

2 "You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to (C) pervert justice; 3 (D) nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his dispute.

4 "(E) If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.

5 "(F) If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him.

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

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

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

9 "(L) 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.

-Exodus 23:1-9