“1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the
wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude
to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many
to wrest [judgment]: 3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his
cause. 4 If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou
shalt surely bring it back to him again. 5 If thou see the ass of him
that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help
him, thou shalt surely help with him. 6 Thou shalt not wrest the
judgment of thy poor in his cause. 7 Keep thee far from a false matter;
and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the
wicked. 8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise,
and perverteth the words of the righteous. 9 Also thou shalt not oppress
a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were
strangers in the land of Egypt.”
“10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the
fruits thereof: 11 But the seventh [year] thou shalt let it rest and lie
still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the
beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy
vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard. 12 Six days thou shalt do thy work,
and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may
rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
13 And in all [things] that I have said unto you be circumspect: and
make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out
of thy mouth. 14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the
year. 15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat
unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed
of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall
appear before me empty:) 16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of
thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of
ingathering, [which is] in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered
in thy labours out of the field. 17 Three times in the year all thy
males shall appear before the Lord GOD. 18 Thou shalt not offer the
blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my
sacrifice remain until the morning. 19 The first of the firstfruits of
thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt
not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.”
“20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and
to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him,
and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your
transgressions: for my name [is] in him. 22 But if thou shalt indeed
obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto
thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. 23 For mine
Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the
Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites: and I will cut them off. 24 Thou shalt not bow down to their
gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly
overthrow them, and quite break down their images. 25 And ye shall serve
the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I
will take sickness away from the midst of thee. 26 There shall nothing
cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I
will fulfil. 27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all
the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies
turn their backs unto thee. 28 And I will send hornets before thee,
which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from
before thee. 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year;
lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply
against thee. 30 By little and little I will drive them out from before
thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. 31 And I will set
thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and
from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of
the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. 32
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They
shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if
thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.” (Ex 23:1-33
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