²³ 耶和華的話臨到我說：

¹ 不可隨夥佈散謠言；不可與惡人連手妄作見證。

² 不可隨眾行惡；不可在爭訟的事上隨眾偏行，作見證屈枉正直；

³ 也不可在爭訟的事上偏護窮人。

⁴ 若遇見你仇敵的牛或驢失迷了路，總要牽回來交給他。

⁵ 若看見恨你人的驢壓臥在重馱之下，不可走開，務要和驢主一同抬開重馱。

⁶ 不可在窮人爭訟的事上屈枉正直。

⁷ 當遠離虛假的事。不可殺無辜和有義的人，因我必不以惡人為義。

⁸ 不可受賄賂；因為賄賂能叫明眼人變瞎了，又能顛倒義人的話。

⁹ 不可欺壓寄居的；因為你們在埃及地作過寄居的，知道寄居的心。

¹⁰ 六年你要耕種田地，收藏土產，

¹¹ 只是第七年要叫地歇息，不耕不種，使你民中的窮人有吃的；他們所剩下的，野獸可以吃。你的葡萄園和橄欖園也要照樣辦理。

¹² 六日你要做工，第七日要安息，使牛、驢可以歇息，並使你婢女的兒子和寄居的都可以舒暢。

¹³ 凡我對你們說的話，你們要謹守。別神的名，你不可題，也不可從你口中傳說。

¹⁴ 一年三次，你要向我守節。

¹⁵ 你要守除酵節，照我所吩咐你的，在亞筆月內所定的日期，吃無酵餅七天。誰也不可空手朝見我，因為你是這月出了埃及。

¹⁶ 又要守收割節，所收的是你田間所種、勞碌得來初熟之物。並在年底收藏，要守收藏節。

¹⁷ 一切的男丁要一年三次朝見主耶和華。

¹⁸ 不可將我祭牲的血和有酵的餅一同獻上；也不可將我節上祭牲的脂油留到早晨。

¹⁹ 地裡首先初熟之物要送到耶和華─你神的殿。不可用山羊羔母的奶煮山羊羔。

²⁰ 看哪，我差遣使者在你前面，在路上保護你，領你到我所預備的地方去。

²¹ 他是奉我名來的；你們要在他面前謹慎，聽從他的話，不可惹（惹或作：違背）他，因為他必不赦免你們的過犯。

²² 你若實在聽從他的話，照著我一切所說的去行，我就向你的仇敵作仇敵，向你的敵人作敵人。

²³ 我的使者要在你前面行，領你到亞摩利人、赫人、比利洗人、迦南人、希未人、耶布斯人那裡去，我必將他們剪除。

²⁴ 你不可跪拜他們的神，不可事奉他，也不可效法他們的行為，卻要把神像盡行拆毀，打碎他們的柱像。

²⁵ 你們要事奉耶和華─你們的神，他必賜福與你的糧與你的水，也必從你們中間除去疾病。

²⁶ 你境內必沒有墜胎的，不生產的。我要使你滿了你年日的數目。

²⁷ 凡你所到的地方，我要使那裡的眾民在你面前驚駭，擾亂，又要使你一切仇敵轉背逃跑。

²⁸ 我要打發黃蜂飛在你前面，把希未人、迦南人、赫人攆出去。

²⁹ 我不在一年之內將他們從你面前攆出去，恐怕地成為荒涼，野地的獸多起來害你。

³⁰ 我要漸漸地將他們從你面前攆出去，等到你的人數加多，承受那地為業。

³¹ 我要定你的境界，從紅海直到非利士海，又從曠野直到大河。我要將那地的居民交在你手中，你要將他們從你面前攆出去。

³² 不可和他們並他們的神立約。

³³ 他們不可住在你的地上，恐怕他們使你得罪我。你若事奉他們的神，這必成為你的網羅。

¹ Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

² You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.

³ You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!

⁴ You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.

⁵ Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one [and] full of tumult.

⁶ Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.

⁷ In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

⁸ You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

⁹ Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.

¹⁰ In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.

¹¹ One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

¹² In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

¹³ Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.

¹⁴ Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.

¹⁵ I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you.

¹⁶ You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

¹⁷ The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

¹⁸ Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.

¹⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

²⁰ As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.

²¹ Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst.

²² As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so you will be melted in its midst; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.

²³ The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

²⁴ Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.

²⁵ There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in its midst.

²⁶ Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

²⁷ Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

²⁸ Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken.

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

³⁰ I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.

³¹ Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.