Exodus 23:7
You shall flee from lies. The innocent and the just you shall not kill. For I shun the impious.
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In The King James Version
In Context
6You shall not deviate in judgment of the poor.
8Neither shall you accept bribes, which blind even the prudent and subvert the words of the just.
Cross References
Exodus 23:1“You shall not accept a lying voice. Neither shall you join your hand so as to give false testimony on behalf of the impious.
Leviticus 19:11You shall not steal. You shall not lie. Neither shall anyone deceive his neighbor.
Deuteronomy 27:25Cursed be he who accepts gifts in order to strike down the life of innocent blood. And all the people shall say: Amen.
Proverbs 11:21Hand in hand, the evil shall not be innocent. But the offspring of the just shall be saved.
Isaiah 5:20Woe to you who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light, and light for darkness; who exchange bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Matthew Henry on Exodus 23:2-10
Judicial Laws. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: 3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. 4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help… Read the whole commentary →