1 You will not raise
a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an
unrighteous witness.
2 You will not
follow a multitude to do evil; neither will you alter your witness in
a trial to follow the crowd and pervert justice.
3 Neither will you
favor a poor man in a trial just because he is poor.
4 If you meet your
enemy's ox or his ass going astray, you will surely bring it back to
him again.
5 If you see the ass
of him that hates you lying under his burden, and are reluctant to
help him, you will surely help with him.
6 You will not deny
justice for your poor in court.
7 Keep far from a
false matter. Do not slay the innocent and righteous: for I will not
justify the wicked.
8 Do not take
bribes, for the gift blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the
righteous.
9 Do not oppress a
stranger: for you know the heart of a stranger, seeing you were
strangers in the land of Double Straights (Egypt).
10 Six years you
will sow your land, and will gather in the fruits thereof:
11
But the seventh year you will let it rest and lie still; that the
poor of your people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the
field will eat. In like manner you will deal with your vineyard, and
with your olive yard.
12
Six days you will do your work, and on the seventh day you will rest:
that your ox and your ass may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and
the stranger, may be refreshed.
13 In all things
that I have said to you be circumspect. Make no mention of the name
of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth.
14 Three times you
will keep a feast to me in the year.
15 You will keep the
feast of unleavened bread. You will eat unleavened bread seven days,
as I commanded you, in the time appointed of the month Green Ears
(Abib); for in it you came out from Double Straights (Egypt). No one
is to appear before me empty.
16 The feast of
harvest, the firstfruits of your labors, which you have sown in the
field: and the feast of in-gathering, 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 all your males will appear before I AM (the
LORD, Yehovah) GOD.
18 You will not
offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither will the
fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
19 The first of the
first fruits of your land you will bring into the house of I AM (the
LORD, Yehovah) your God. You will not seethe a kid in his mother's
milk.
20 I send an Angel
before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place
which I have prepared.
21 Beware of him,
and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your
transgressions: for My Name is in him.
22 But if you will
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 will
go before you, and bring you in to the The Talkers, Sayers (Amorite),
and the Terrors (Hittite), and the Village Dwellers (Perizzite), and
the Humbled Ones (Canaanites), the Villagers (Gibeonites were
Hivites), and the Trodden Underfoot (Jebusite - original inhabitants
of Jerusalem): and I will cut them off.
24 You will not bow
down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but you
will utterly overthrow them, and totally break down their images.
25 You will serve I
AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God; and I will bless your bread and your
water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you.
26 Nothing will cast
their young, nor be barren, in your land and I will fulfill the
number of your days.
27
I will send my fear before you, and will destroy all the people to
whom you will come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs
to you.
28 I will send
hornets before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Humbled Ones
(Canaanites), and the Terror (Hittite), from before you.
29
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 drive them out from before you, until you
be increased, and inherit the land.
31 I will set your
boundaries from the Red sea to the sea of the Immigrants
(Philistines), and from the desert to the river: for I will deliver
the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and you will drive them
out before you.
32 You will make no
covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33
They will 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.
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