[1] "You shall not utter a false report. You shall not join hands with a
wicked man, to be a malicious witness. [2] You shall not follow a multitude
to do evil; nor shall you bear witness in a suit, turning aside after a
multitude, so as to pervert justice; [3] nor shall you be partial to a poor
man in his suit. [4] "If you meet your enemy's ox or his ass going astray,
you shall bring it back to him. [5] If you see the ass of one who hates you
lying under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it, you
shall help him to lift it up. [6] "You shall not pervert the justice due to
your poor in his suit. [7] Keep far from a false charge, and do not slay
the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. [8] And you
shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials, and subverts the
cause of those who are in the right. [9] "You shall not oppress a stranger;
you know the heart of a stranger, for you were strangers in the land of
Egypt. [10] "For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield;
[11] 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 wild beasts may eat.
You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard. [12]
"Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest;
that your ox and your ass may have rest, and the son of your bondmaid, and
the alien, may be refreshed. [13] Take heed to all that I have said to you;
and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let such be heard out
of your mouth. [14] "Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.
[15] 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. [16] You shall keep the feast of harvest, of the first fruits
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. [17] Three times in the year shall all your males
appear before the Lord GOD. [18] "You shall not offer the blood of my
sacrifice with leavened bread, or let the fat of my feast remain until the
morning. [19] "The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring
into the house of the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its
mother's milk. [20] "Behold, I send an angel before you, to guard you on
the way and to bring you to the place which I have prepared. [21] Give heed
to him and hearken to his voice, do not rebel against him, for he will not
pardon your transgression; for my name is in him. [22] "But if you hearken
attentively to his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to
your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. [23] "When my angel goes
before you, and brings you in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the
Per'izzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, and I
blot them out, [24] you shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them,
nor do according to their works, but you shall utterly overthrow them and
break their pillars in pieces. [25] You shall serve the LORD your God, and
I will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from
the midst of you. [26] None shall cast her young or be barren in your land;
I will fulfil the number of your days. [27] 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. [28] And I
will send hornets before you, which shall drive out Hivite, Canaanite, and
Hittite from before you. [29] I will not drive them out from before you in
one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply
against you. [30] Little by little I will drive them out from before you,
until you are increased and possess the land. [31] And I will set your
bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the
wilderness to the Euphra'tes; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the
land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. [32] You
shall make no covenant with them or with their gods. [33] 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."
