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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. "No one is to appear before me empty-handed. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. "Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast. "The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31"I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you." |
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