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EXODUS — 23:6 incline

EXOD823 It was taught: Abba Chanan says in the name of R. Eliezer: If an evildoer and an observant Jew are being judged by you, do not say: Since this one is an evildoer, I shall incline the judgment against him. In this respect it is written: "You shall not incline the judgment of your poor one in his quarrel" -- [The reference is to] one who is poor in mitzvoth (Mechilta).

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EXODUS — 23:6 quarrel

EXOD826 "in his quarrel" [i.e., in judgment] you do not incline, but you do incline [in favor of a poor man] in respect to leket, shikchah, and peah [i.e., If in doubt whether something in the province of these mitzvoth [i.e., gleanings and corners of the field, forgotten produce -- AJL] belongs to you or to him, decide in his favor] (Yerushalmi Peah 4:5).

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