[1] "You shall not spread a false report. Don`t join your hand with the
wicked to be a malicious witness. [2] You shall not follow a crowd to do
evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to
pervert justice; [3] neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause. [4]
"If you meet your enemy`s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely
bring it back to him again. [5] If you see the donkey of him who hates you
fallen down under his burden, don`t leave him, you shall surely help him
with it. [6] "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their
lawsuits. [7] "Keep far from a false charge, and don`t kill the innocent
and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked. [8] You shall take no
bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of
the righteous. [9] "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart
of an alien, seeing you were aliens in the land of Egypt. [10] "For six
years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, [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 animal of the field shall eat.
In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.
[12] "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall
rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your
handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed. [13] "Be careful to do all things
that I have said to you; and don`t invoke the name of other gods, neither
let them be heard out of your mouth. [14] "You shall observe a feast to me
three times a year. [15] You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread.
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time
appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out from Egypt), and no one
shall appear before me empty. [16] And the feast of harvest, the
first-fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of
harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the
field. [17] Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the
Lord Yahweh. [18] "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with
leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until
the morning. [19] The first of the first-fruits of your ground you shall
bring into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a kid in
its mother`s milk. [20] "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by
the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. [21] Pay
attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don`t provoke him, for he will
not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him. [22] But if you indeed
listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to
your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. [23] For my angel shall
go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite,
the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off. [24]
You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their
practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.
[25] You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your
water, and I will take sickness away from your midst. [26] No one will
miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
[27] I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to
whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
[28] I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite,
the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. [29] I will not drive them
out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the
animals of the field multiply against you. [30] Little by little I will
drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the
land. [31] I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the
Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; 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, nor 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."
