Exodus 23

¹ Thou shalt not take up a false report: putput not thy handhand with the wickedwicked to be an unrighteousunrighteous witnesswitness.

² Thou shalt not followfollow a multitudemultitude to do evilevil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside afterafter a multitudemultitude to wrest [justicejustice]:

³ neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.

⁴ If thou meetmeet thine enemy'senemy's ox or his assass goinggoing astray, thou shalt surely bring it backback to him again.

⁵ If thou seesee the assass of him that hatethhateth thee lying underunder his burdenburden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release [it] with him.

⁶ Thou shalt not wrest the justicejustice [due] to thy poorpoor in his cause.

⁷ Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteousrighteous slayslay thou not: for I will not justifyjustify the wickedwicked.

⁸ And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sightsight, and perverteth the wordswords of the righteousrighteous.

⁹ And a sojournersojourner shalt thou not oppress: for ye knowknow the heart of a sojournersojourner, seeingseeing ye were sojournerssojourners in the landland of EgyptEgypt.

¹⁰ And sixsix years thou shalt sow thy landland, and shalt gathergather in the increase thereof:

¹¹ but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poorpoor of thy people may eateat: and what they leave the beast of the fieldfield shall eateat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyardvineyard, [and] with thy oliveyardoliveyard.

¹² Six daysSix days thou shalt do thy workwork, and on the seventh dayday thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine assass may have rest, and the sonson of thy handmaidhandmaid, and the sojournersojourner, may be refreshed.

¹³ And in all thingsall things that I have saidsaid unto you take ye heed: and makemake no mentionmention of the namename of other godsgods, neither let it be heardheard out of thy mouthmouth.

¹⁴ ThreeThree times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

¹⁵ The feast of unleavened breadunleavened bread shalt thou keepkeep: sevenseven daysdays thou shalt eateat unleavened breadunleavened bread, as I commandedcommanded thee, at the time appointed in the monthmonth AbibAbib (for in it thou camest out from EgyptEgypt); and none shall appear beforebefore me empty:

¹⁶ and the feast of harvestharvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sowest in the fieldfield: and the feast of ingatheringingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherestgatherest in thy labors out of the fieldfield.

¹⁷ ThreeThree times in the year all thy males shall appear beforebefore the Lordthe Lord JehovahJehovah.

¹⁸ Thou shalt not offer the bloodblood of my sacrifice with leavenedleavened bread; neither shall the fatfat of my feast remain all night until the morningmorning.

¹⁹ The firstfirst of the firstfirst-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bringbring into the househouse of JehovahJehovah thy GodGod. Thou shalt not boilboil a kidkid in it mother'smother's milkmilk.

²⁰ Behold, I sendsend an angelangel beforebefore thee, to keepkeep thee by the wayway, and to bringbring thee into the placeplace which I have prepared.

²¹ Take ye heed beforebefore him, and hearkenhearken unto his voicevoice; provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressiontransgression: for my namename is in him.

²² But if thou shalt indeed hearkenhearken unto his voicevoice, and do all that I speakspeak; then I will be an enemyenemy unto thine enemiesenemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

²³ For mine angelangel shall go beforego before thee, and bringbring thee in unto the Amorite, and the HittiteHittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the HiviteHivite, and the Jebusite: and I will cut them off.

²⁴ Thou shalt not bow downbow down to their godsgods, nor serveserve them, nor do after their worksworks; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and breakbreak in pieces their pillarspillars.

²⁵ And ye shall serveserve JehovahJehovah your GodGod, and he will blessbless thy breadbread, and thy waterwater; and I will take sicknesssickness away from the midst of thee.

²⁶ There shall none cast her young, nor be barrenbarren, in thy landland: the number of thy daysdays I will fulfil.

²⁷ I will sendsend my terror beforebefore thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt comecome, and I will make all thine enemiesenemies turnturn their backs unto thee.

²⁸ And I will sendsend the hornethornet beforebefore thee, which shall drive out the HiviteHivite, the Canaanite, and the HittiteHittite, from beforebefore thee.

²⁹ I will not drive them out from beforebefore thee in oneone year, lest the landland become desolate, and the beasts of the fieldfield multiply against thee.

³⁰ By little and little I will drive them out from beforebefore thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the landland.

³¹ And I will set thy borderborder from the Red SeaRed Sea even unto the seasea of the PhilistinesPhilistines, and from the wildernesswilderness unto the RiverRiver: for I will deliver the inhabitantsthe inhabitants of the landland into your handhand: and thou shalt drive them out beforebefore thee.

³² Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their godsgods.

³³ They shall not dwelldwell in thy landland, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serveserve their godsgods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.