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Exodus 23:1-9

You shall not spread a false report.  You shall not join hands with the
wicked to act as a malicious witness.  You shall not follow a majority in
wrongdoing; when you bear witness in a lawsuit, you shall not side with
the majority so as to pervert justice; nor shall you be partial to the
poor in a lawsuit.

When you come upon your enemy's ox or donkey going astray, you shall bring
it back.

When you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden and
you would hold back from setting it free, you must help to set it free.

You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in their lawsuits.
Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and those in
the right, for I will not acquit the guilty.  You shall take no bribe, for
a bribe blinds the officials, and subverts the cause of those who are in
the right.

You shall not oppress a resident alien; you know the heart of an alien,
for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.