Exodus 23:6

+ 23:6. Ex 23:6 (Ex 23:3, 23:1-9) (#10.585): T. Not to deny a poor person his rights in a lawsuit / R. A judge must not decide unjustly the case of the habitual transgressor R. Note: Oral Tradition specifies this poor person is one observant of Torah ·Teaching· “You shall not deny right judgement to your poor people in their lawsuits.

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Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

In Context

5+ 23:5. Ex 23:5 (Ex 23:4-5) (#6.389): T. To help another unload his burden or his animal’s burden / R. Help another remove the load from an animal that can no longer carry it T. Directive: You are not allowed to pretend not to see it in order to avoid offering help 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. (5)

7+ 23:7. Ex 23:7 (Ex 23:6-9, 23:1-3) (#9.556): T. Do not commit fraud ·deception / wrongful criminal accusation for personal or financial gain· and do not cause the death of the innocent or the upright / R. The court must not execute anybody on circumstantial evidence, but on the evidence of two eye witnesses “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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Cross References

Leviticus 19:15+ 19:15. Lev 19:15 (#10.586): T. Not to do injustice in a judgment / R. A judge must not pervert justice “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. + 19:15. Lev 19:15 (#10.587): Not to take pity on a poor man when judging You shall not be partial to the poor, + 19:15. Lev 19:15 (#10.588): Not to show favoritism toward an important or wealthy man when judging nor show favoritism to the great; + 19:15. Lev 19:15 (#10.589): T. To impart equal justice by not favoring one party over the other in disputes / R. To judge righteously but you shall judge your neighbor uprightly.

Deuteronomy 27:19‘Cursed is he who withholds mishpat ·justice· from the foreigner, orphan, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘ Amen ·So be it·.’

Proverbs 18:5To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, 2 nor to deprive the innocent of mishpat ·justice·. 1

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 →

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