Exodus 23:6

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy needy in his cause.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 19:7

And now the fear of Jehovah shall be upon you: watch ye and do: for not iniquity with Jehovah our God, and lifting up of faces, and taking a gift

Job 31:13

If I shall despise the judgment of my servant and my maid in their contending with me;

Proverbs 18:5

To lift up the face of the unjust one is not good; to turn aside the just one in judgment.

Proverbs 22:22

Thou shalt not strip the poor because he is poor: and thou shalt not crush the humble in the gate.

Proverbs 31:5

Lest he shall drink and forget what is prescribed, and change the judgment of all the sons of affliction.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou shalt see the oppression of the poor one, and the spoiling of judgment and justice in a province, thou shalt not wonder at the inclination: for the high one above the high one is watching, and the high ones over them.

Isaiah 5:23

Justifying the unjust on account of a gift, and they will take away the justice of the just from him.

Jeremiah 5:28

They became fat, they shone: they passed over words of evil: they judged not judgment, the judgment of the orphan, and they will give success; and the judgment of the needy they judged not.

Jeremiah 6:28

They are all turning aside, degenerate shoots, going about tale-bearing: brass and iron, they are destroyers all of them.

Jeremiah 7:6

Ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan and the widow, and innocent blood ye shall not pour out in this place, and after other gods ye shall not go, for evil to you;

Leviticus 19:15

Ye shall not do evil in judgment; thou shalt not take up the face of the poor; thou shalt not reverence the face of the great: in justice shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

Malachi 3:5

And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies.

Deuteronomy 16:19

Thou shalt not turn away Judgment; thou shalt not look upon and thou shalt not take a gift, for the gift will blind the eyes of the wise and will pervert the words of the just.

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursing he turning away the judgment of the stranger, the orphan and the widow: and all the people said, Amen.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons went not in his way, and they will incline after plunder, and they will take a gift, and they will turn away from judgment.