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Read Full Chapter (Exodus 23) Exodus 23:5 KJV
"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."
Exodus 23:5 in Context (Verses 2–8 KJV)
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¶ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:*
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¶ Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
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¶ 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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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.*
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Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of 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 justify the wicked.
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¶ And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.*