“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands
with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. You shall not fall in
with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit,
siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, nor shall you be
partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.
“If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you
shall bring it back to him. If you see the donkey of one who hates
you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him
with it; you shall rescue it with him.
“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his
lawsuit. Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent
and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. And you shall take
no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the
cause of those who are in the right.
“You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a
sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield,
but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the
poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the
field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with
your olive orchard.
“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you
shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son
of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.
“Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no
mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your
lips.
“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. You shall
keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall
eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the
month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear
before me empty-handed. You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the
firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall
keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you
gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. Three times in
the year shall all your males appear before the Lord GOD.
“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything
leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.
“The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into
the house of the LORD your God.
“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
“Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and
to bring you to the place that I have prepared. Pay careful
attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for
he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.
“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then
I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your
adversaries.
“When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and
the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and
the Jebusites, and I blot them out, you shall not bow down to their
gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly
overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces. You shall serve
the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and
I will take sickness away from among you. None shall miscarry or be
barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. I will
send my terror before you and will throw into confusion all the
people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your
enemies turn their backs to you. And I will send hornets before
you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the
Hittites from before you. I will not drive them out from before you
in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts
multiply against you. Little by little I will drive them out from
before you, until you have increased and possess the land. And I
will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the
Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will
give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall
drive them out before you. You shall make no covenant with them and
their gods. They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you
sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a
snare to you.”
