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1 “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. 2 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice; 3 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause. 4 “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. 5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him, you shall surely help him with it. 6 “You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. 7 “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked. 8 You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
9 “You shall not oppress an alien, for you
10 “For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its
increase, 11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow,
that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the
field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard and with
your olive grove.
12 “Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall
rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your
handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.
13 “Be careful to do all things that I have said to you
14 “You shall observe a feast to me three times a year. 15 You shall
observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it
you came out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty. 16 And
the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the
field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in
your labors out of the field. 17 Three times in the year all your males
shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
18 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread,
neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.
19 The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the
house of Yahweh your God.
“You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
20 “Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to
bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21 Pay attention to him,
and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your
disobedience, for my name is in him. 22 But if you indeed listen to 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 before you, and
bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off. 24 You shall not bow
down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall
utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars. 25 You
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