Exodus 23

¹ Thou shalt not receive the voicevoice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy handhand to bearbear false witnesswitness for a wickedwicked person.

² Thou shalt not followfollow the multitudemultitude to do evilevil: neither shalt thou yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from the truth.

³ Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment.

⁴ If thou meetmeet thy enemy'senemy's ox or assass goinggoing astray, bring it backback to him.

⁵ If thou seesee the assass of him that hatethhateth thee lie underneathunderneath his burdenburden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with him.

⁶ Thou shalt not go aside in the poorpoor man's judgmentjudgment.

⁷ Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and justjust person thou shalt not putput to death: because I abhor the wickedwicked.

⁸ Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervertpervert the wordswords of the justjust.

⁹ Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you knowknow the hearts of strangersstrangers: for you also were strangersstrangers in the landland of EgyptEgypt.

¹⁰ SixSix years thou shalt sow thy groundground, and shalt gathergather the corn thereof.

¹¹ But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer it to rest, that the poorpoor of thy people may eateat, and whatsoever shall be left, let the beasts of the fieldfield eateat it: so shalt thou do with thy vineyardvineyard and thy oliveyardoliveyard.

¹² Six daysSix days thou shalt workwork: the seventh dayday thou shalt cease, that thy ox and thy assass may rest: and the sonson of thy handmaidhandmaid and the stranger may be refreshed.

¹³ KeepKeep all thingsall things that I have saidsaid to you. And by the namename of strange godsstrange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heardheard out of your mouthmouth.

¹⁴ ThreeThree times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.

¹⁵ Thou shalt keepkeep the feast of unleavened breadunleavened bread. SevenSeven daysdays shalt thou eateat unleavened breadunleavened bread, as I commandedcommanded thee, in the time of the monthmonth of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of EgyptEgypt: thou shalt not appear empty beforebefore me.

¹⁶ And the feast of the harvestharvest of the firstfruits of thy workwork, whatsoever thou hast sown in the fieldfield. The feast also in the end of the year, when thou hast gatheredgathered in all thy corn out of the fieldfield.

¹⁷ ThriceThrice a year shall all thy males appear beforebefore the Lordthe Lord thy God.

¹⁸ Thou shalt not sacrifice the bloodblood of my victim upon leavenleaven, neither shall the fatfat of my solemnity remain until the morningmorning.

¹⁹ Thou shalt carry the firstfruits of the corn of thy ground to the house of thehouse of the LordLord thy GodGod. Thou shalt not boilboil a kidkid in the milkmilk of his dam.

²⁰ Behold I will sendsend my angelangel, who shall go beforego before thee, and keepkeep thee in thy journey, and bringbring thee into the placeplace that I have prepared.

²¹ Take notice of him, and hearhear his voicevoice, and do not think him one to be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my namename is in him.

²² But if thou wilt hearhear his voicevoice, and do all that I speakspeak, I will be an enemyenemy to thy enemiesenemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee.

²³ And my angelangel shall go beforego before thee, and shall bringbring thee in unto the Amorrhite, and the HethiteHethite, and the Pherezite, and the Chanaanite, and the HeviteHevite, and the Jebusite, whom I will destroy.

²⁴ Thou shalt not adoreadore their godsgods, nor serveserve them. Thou shalt not do their worksworks, but shalt destroy them, and breakbreak their statues.

²⁵ And you shall serveserve the Lordthe Lord your GodGod, that I may blessbless your breadbread and your waters, and may take away sicknesssickness from the midst of thee.

²⁶ There shall not be one fruitless nor barrenbarren in thy landland: I will fillfill the number of thy daysdays.

²⁷ I will sendsend my fear beforebefore thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt comecome: and will turnturn the backs of all thy enemiesenemies beforebefore thee.

²⁸ Sending out hornetshornets beforebefore, that shall drive away the HeviteHevite, and the Chanaanite, and the HethiteHethite, beforebefore thou come in.

²⁹ I will not cast them out from thy faceface in oneone year: lest the landland be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee.

³⁰ By little and little I will drive them out from beforebefore thee, till thou be increased, and dost possess the landland.

³¹ And I will set thy bounds from the Red SeaRed Sea to the seasea of the Palestines, and from the desertdesert to the riverriver: I will deliver the inhabitantsthe inhabitants of the landland into your handshands, and will drive them out from beforebefore you.

³² Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their godsgods.

³³ Let them not dwelldwell in thy landland, lest perhaps thy make thee sin against me, if thou serveserve their godgod: which undoubtedly will be a scandal to thee.