🔥WEB · Exodus 23:7

What does Exodus 23:7 mean?

"“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked."

— Exodus 23:7 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

4

“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

5

If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

6

“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

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“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

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“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

9

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

10

“For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,

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