Exodus 23

1 You shall not receive a vain report: you shall not agree with the unjust [man] to become an unjust witness.

You shall not raise a false report: put not your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

2 You shall not associate with the multitude for evil; you shall not join yourself with a multitude to turn aside with the majority so as to shut out judgment.

You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

3 And you shall not spare a poor man in judgment.

Neither shall you countenance a poor man in his cause.

4 And if you meet your enemy's ox or his ass going astray, you shall turn them back and restore them to him.

If you meet your enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

5 And if you see your enemy's ass fallen under its burden, you shall not pass by it, but shall help to raise it with him.

If you see the ass of him that hates you lying under his burden, and would forbear to help him, you shall surely help with him.

6 You shall not wrest the sentence of the poor in his judgment.

You shall not wrest the judgment of your poor in his cause.

7 You shall abstain from every unjust thing: you shall not kill the innocent and just, and you shall not justify the wicked for gifts.

Keep you far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay you not: for I will not justify the wicked.

8 And you shall not receive gifts; for gifts blind the eyes of the seeing, and corrupt just words.

And you shall take no gift: for the gift blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

9 And you shall not afflict a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger; for you were yourselves strangers in the land of Egypt.

Also you shall not oppress a stranger: for you know the heart of a stranger, seeing you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10 Six years you shall sow your land, and gather in the fruits of it.

And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in the fruits thereof:

11 But in the seventh year you shall let it rest, and leave it, and the poor of your nation shall feed; and the wild beasts of the field shall eat that which remains: thus shall you do to your vineyard and to your oliveyard.

But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie still; that the poor of your people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard, and with your olive grove.

12 Six days shall you do your works, and on the seventh day there shall be rest, that your ox and your ass may rest, and that the son of your maidservant and the stranger may be refreshed.

Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest: that your ox and your ass may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

13 Observe all things whatever I have commanded you; and you shall make no mention of the name of other gods, neither shall they be heard out of your mouth.

And in all things that I have said to you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth.

14 Keep you a feast to me three times in the year.

Three times you shall keep a feast to me in the year.

15 Take heed to keep the feast of unleavened bread: seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I charged you at the season of the month of new [corn], for in it you came out of Egypt: you shall not appear before me empty.

You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread: (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it you came out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty: )

16 And you shall keep the feast of the harvest of first fruits of your labors, whatever you shall have sown in your field, and the feast of completion at the end of the year in the gathering in of your fruits out of your field.

And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors out of the field.

17 Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord your God.

Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the LORD God.

18 For when I shall have cast out the nations from before you, and shall have widened your borders, you shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, neither must the fat of my feast abide till the morning.

You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

19 You shall bring the first-offerings of the first fruits of your land into the house of the Lord your God. You shall not seethe a lamb in its mother's milk.

The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

20 And, behold, I send my angel before your face, that he may keep you in the way, that he may bring you into the land which I have prepared for you.

Behold, I send an Angel before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

21 Take heed to yourself and listen to him, and disobey him not; for he will not give way to you, for my name is on him.

Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

22 If you will indeed hear my voice, and if you will do all the things I shall charge you with, and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations, for the whole earth is mine; and you shall be to me a royal priesthood, and a holy nation: these words shall you speak to the children of Israel, If you shall indeed hear my voice, and do all the things I shall tell you, I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

But if you shall indeed obey 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 as your leader, and shall bring you to the Amorite, and Chettite, and Pherezite, and Chananite, and Gergesite, and Evite, and Jebusite, and I will destroy them.

For my Angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.

24 You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them: you shall not do according to their works, but shall utterly destroy them, and break to pieces their pillars.

You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but you shall utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

25 And you shall serve the Lord your God, and I will bless your bread and your wine and your water, and I will turn away sickness from you.

And you shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless your bread, and your water; and I will take sickness away from the middle of you.

26 There shall not be on your land one that is impotent or barren. I will surely fulfil the number of your days.

There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in your land: the number of your days I will fulfill.

27 And I will send terror before you, and I will strike with amazement all the nations to which you shall come, and I will make all your enemies to flee.

I will send my fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

28 And I will send hornets before you, and you shall cast out the Amorites and the Evites, and the Chananites and the Chettites from you.

And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.

29 I will not cast them out in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against you.

I will not drive them out from before you in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against you.

30 By little [and little] I will cast them out from before you, until you shall be increased and inherit the earth.

By little and little I will drive them out from before you, until you be increased, and inherit the land.

31 And I will set your borders from the Red Sea, to the sea of the Phylistines, and from the wilderness to the great river Euphrates; and I will give into your hand those that dwell in the land, and will cast them out from you.

And I will set your bounds from the Red sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert 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 and their gods.

You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

33 And they shall not dwell in your land, lest they cause you to sin against me; for if you should serve their gods, these will be an offense to you.

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.