Exodus 23:2

Not to follow a majority blindly for evil purposes, or, in particular to pervert justice.

to do evil lit. into evil things.

speak answer (in a court of law), i.e. bear witness (RVm.), as Exodus 20:16. The Heb. -ânâhnever means simply to -speak."

to turn aside after Judges 9:3 Heb., 1 Samuel 8:3; 1 Kings 2:28 Heb.

to wrest or, as the same word is rendered in v.6 and elsewhere, to pervert(lit. to turn aside): see Deuteronomy 16:19; Deuteronomy 24:17; Deu 27:19, 1 Samuel 8:3; Lamentations 3:35. (To -turn aside" a man from his right is also said (sometimes with -from his right" omitted): Isaiah 10:2; Isaiah 29:21; Amos 5:12; Proverbs 18:5; Malachi 3:5). The text of this verse is in parts suspicious: but no doubt the same general sense was always expressed by it.