Exodus 23:6

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Thou shalt not bow [away] from truth in the doom of a poor man.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 19:7

the dread of the Lord be with you, and do ye all things with diligence, that is, with discretion; forsooth with the Lord your God is no wickedness, neither taking, or accepting, of persons, neither covetousness of gifts.

Job 31:13

If I despised to take doom with my servant and with mine handmaid, when they strived against me.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to take the person of a wicked man in doom, that thou bow away from the truth of doom.

Proverbs 22:22

Do thou not violence to a poor man, for he is poor; neither defoul thou a needy man in the gate.

Proverbs 31:5

Lest peradventure they drink, and forget dooms, and change the cause of the sons of a poor man.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest false challenges of needy men, and violent dooms, and that rightfulness is destroyed in the province, wonder thou not on this doing; for another is higher than an high man, and also other men be more high above these men;

Isaiah 5:23

and ye justify a wicked man for gifts, and ye take away the rightful-ness [or rightwiseness] of a just [or rightwise] man from him.

Jeremiah 5:28

Therefore they be magnified, and made rich, made fat within, and made fat withoutforth, and they passed worst my words; they deemed not the cause of a widow, they dressed not the cause of a fatherless child, and they deemed not the doom of poor men.

Jeremiah 6:28

All these princes bowing away, going guilefully, be metal and iron; all be corrupt.

Jeremiah 7:6

if ye make not false challenge to a comeling, and to a fatherless child, and to a widow; neither shed out innocent blood in this place, and go not after alien gods, into evil to yourselves,

Leviticus 19:15

Thou shalt not do that, that is wicked, neither thou shalt deem unjustly; behold thou not the person of a poor man, neither honour thou the face of a mighty man; deem thou justly to thy neighbour.

Malachi 3:5

And I shall come to you in doom, and I shall be a swift witness to mis-doers, either enchanters of devil’s craft, and to adulterers, and to forsworn men, and that falsely challenge the hire of an hired man, and widows, and fatherless children, and oppress a pilgrim, and dreaded not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Deuteronomy 16:19

and bow they not into the other part for favour, either gift. Thou shalt not take a person, neither gifts, for why gifts blind the eyes of wise men, and change the words of just [or rightwise] men.

Deuteronomy 27:19

He is cursed that perverteth the doom of a comeling, of a fatherless, either motherless child, and of a widow; and all the people shall say, Amen!

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons went not in his ways, but they bowed after avarice, and they took gifts, and perverted doom.