Exodus 23:1-21 ▼

1 Thou shalt not take up a false report: thou shalt not put thy hand with the unjust one to be a witness of wrong.

2 Thou shalt not be after multitudes for evil; thou shalt not answer for the multitude to stretch out after multitudes to pervert justice.

3 And the poor one thou shalt not make proud in his cause.

4 If thou shalt meet thine enemy's ox or his ass wandering, turning back, thou shalt turn him back to him.

5 If thou shalt see the ass of him hating thee, lying down under his load, and thou didst desist from cutting loose for him, releasing, thou shall release with him.

6 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy needy in his cause.

7 From the word of falsehood thou shalt go far away; and the innocent and the just one thou shalt not kill: for I will not justify the unjust one.

8 And thou shalt not take a gift; for the gift will blind the seeing, and will pervert just words.

9 Thou shalt not press the stranger: and ye knew the soul of the stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10 Six years shalt thou sow thy land, and gather its produce:

11 And the seventh thou shalt remit, and let it be; and the poor of thy people shall eat; and the remains, the beast of the field shall eat. So shalt thou do to thy vineyard and to thy olive tree.

12 Six days thou shalt do thy works, and in the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox shall rest, and thine ass, and the son of thy maid shall be refreshed, and the stranger.

13 And in all which I said to you ye shall watch; and ye shall not call to mind the name of other gods; it shall not be heard above thy mouth.

14 Three times thou shalt keep a festival to me in the year.

15 Thou shalt watch the festival of unleavened: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened as I commanded thee according to the appointment of the month Abib; for in it thou camest forth out of Egypt: and they shall not be seen before me empty.

16 And the festival of the harvest, the first fruits of thy works, which thou shalt sow in the field: and the festival of gathering in the going out of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field.

17 Three times in the year every male of thine shall be seen to the face of the Lord Jehovah.

18 Thou shalt not sacrifice upon leaven: the blood of my sacrifice, and the fat of my festival shall not remain over till morning.

19 The sacrifice of the first fruits of thy land thou shalt bring to the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother's milk.

20 Behold, I send a messenger before thee to guard thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place which I prepared.

21 Watch from his face, and hear to his voice; thou shalt not rebel against him: he will not lift up your transgression; for my name is in the midst of him.