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¹ Thou schalt not resseyue a vois of leesyng, nether thou schalt ioyne ^[1] thin hond ^[2] , that thou seie fals witnessyng for a wickid man.

² Thou schalt not sue the cumpanye to do yuel, nether thou schalt ascente to the sentence of ful many men in doom, that thou go awey fro treuthe.

³ Also thou schalt not haue mercy of a pore man in a `cause, ethir doom ^[3] .

⁴ If thou meetist `the oxe of thin enemye, ethir the asse errynge, lede thou ayen to hym.

⁵ If thou seest that the asse of hym that hatith thee liggyth vndir a burthun, thou schalt not passe, but thou schalt reise with hym.

⁶ Thou schalt not bowe in the doom of a pore man.

⁷ Thou schalt fle a lesyng. Thou schalt not sle an innocent man, and iust; for Y am aduersarie to a wickid man.

⁸ Take thou not yiftis, that blynden also prudent men, and destryen the wordys of iust men.

⁹ Thou schalt not be diseseful to a pilgrym, for ye knowen the soulis of comelyngis, for also ye weren pilgryms in the lond of Egipt.

¹⁰ Sixe yeer thou schalt sowe thi lond, and thou schalt gadre fruytis therof;

¹¹ forsothe in the seuenthe yeer thou schalt leeue it, and schalt make to reste, that the pore men of thi puple ete, and what euer is residue, the beestis of the feeld ete; so thou schalt do in thi vyner, and in place of olyue trees.

¹² Sixe dayes thou schalt worche, in the seuenthe dai thou schalt ceesse, that thin oxe and asse reste, and the sone of thin handmaide, and the comelyng be refreischid.

¹³ Kepe ye alle thingis, whiche Y seide to you; and ye schulen not swere bi the name of alien goddis, nether it schal be herd of youre mouth.