Exodus 23
23“aYou shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a bmalicious witness. 2“You shall not follow 1the masses in doing evil, nor shall you 2testify in a case so as to turn aside after 3the masses in order to 4,acause justice to be turned aside; 3anor shall you 1be partial to a poor man in his case.
4“aIf you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him. 5“aIf you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him.
6“aYou shall not cause the justice due to your needy brother to be turned aside in his case. 7“aKeep far from a 1false charge, and bdo not kill the innocent or the righteous, for cI will not justify the guilty.
8“aAnd you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and 1subverts the cause of the 2just.
9“aAnd you shall not oppress a sojourner, since you yourselves know the soul of a sojourner, for you also were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Judgments About Work and Rest
10“aNow you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its produce, 11but on the seventh year you shall let it 1rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. Thus you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.
12“aSix days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall 1rest so that your ox and your donkey may 2rest, and the son of your maidservant, as well as your sojourner, may refresh themselves. 13“Now aconcerning everything which I have said to you, beware; and bdo not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard 1from your mouth.
Judgments About National Feasts
14“aThree times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. 15“You shall keep athe Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the bmonth Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And 1,cnone shall appear before Me empty-handed. 16“Also you shall keep athe Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year bwhen you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field. 17“aThree times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
18“aYou shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; bnor is the fat of My 1feast to remain overnight until morning.
19“You shall bring athe choice first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God. “bYou shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.
Yahweh Will Drive Out Israel’s Enemies
20“Behold, I am going to send aan angel before you to keep you along the way and bto bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21“Keep watch of yourself before him and listen to his voice; ado not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since bMy name is in him. 22“But if you truly listen to his voice and do all that I speak, then aI will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. 23“aFor My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will annihilate them. 24“aYou shall not worship their gods, you shall not serve them, and you shall not do according to their deeds; bbut you shall utterly pull them down and shatter their csacred pillars in pieces. 25“aBut you shall serve Yahweh your God, 1and He will bless your bread and your water; and bI will remove sickness from your midst. 26“There shall be no one miscarrying or abarren in your land; bI will fulfill the number of your days. 27“I will asend My terror ahead of you and bthrow into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will cmake all your enemies 1turn their backs to you. 28“And I will send ahornets ahead of you so that they will bdrive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you. 29“aI will not drive them out before you in a single year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 30“I will drive them out before you alittle by little, until you become fruitful and take the land as an inheritance. 31“aAnd I will set your boundary from the 1Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the 2River; bfor I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will cdrive them out from before you. 32“aYou shall cut no covenant with them bor with their gods. 33“aThey shall not live in your land, lest they make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, bit will surely be a snare to you.”