Exodus 23:3

Also thou schalt not haue mercy of a pore man in a `cause, ethir doom.

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The King James Version

Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

In Context

2Thou schalt not sue the cumpanye to do yuel, nether thou schalt ascente to the sentence of ful many men in doom, that thou go awey fro treuthe.

4If thou meetist `the oxe of thin enemye, ethir the asse errynge, lede thou ayen to hym.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:17No difference schal be of persones; ye schulen here so a litil man, `that is, pore, as a greet man, nether ye schulen take the persoone of ony man, for it is the doom of God. That if ony thing semeth hard to you, telle ye to me, and Y schal here.

Psalms 82:3For lo! thin enemyes sowneden; and thei that haten thee reisiden the heed.

Proverbs 22:22Do thou not violence to a pore man, for he is pore; nethir defoule thou a nedi man in the yate.

Amos 5:12For Y knew youre grete trespassis many, and youre stronge synnes; enemyes of `the riytwis man, takynge yifte, and berynge doun pore men in the yate.

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