Exodus 23:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ Thou shalt not wrest the judgement of thy poor in his cause.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his cause.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause.

Common English Bible

⁶ Don’t undermine the justice that your poor deserve in their lawsuits.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ You shall not deviate in judgment of the poor.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.

Exodus 23:6 Cross References

2 Chronicles 19:7

Now therefore let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

Job 31:13

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, When they contended with me:

Proverbs 18:5

To accept the person of the wicked is not good, Nor to turn aside the righteous in judgement.

Proverbs 22:22

Rob not the poor, because he is poor, Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Proverbs 31:5

Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the judgement of any that is afflicted.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of judgement and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there be higher than they.

Isaiah 5:23

which justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Jeremiah 5:28

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness: they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they should prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge,

Jeremiah 6:28

They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.

Jeremiah 7:6

if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

Leviticus 19:15

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgement: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgement; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers; and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

Deuteronomy 16:19

Thou shalt not wrest judgement; thou shalt not respect persons: neither shalt thou take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed be he that wresteth the judgement of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgement.