Exodus 23

23Thou ^ashalt not ^||raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an ^bunrighteous witness. ^2cThou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou ^†speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest ^djudgment: ³Neither shalt thou ^ecountenance a poor man in his cause. ^4fIf thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. ⁵If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, ^||and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him. ^6gThou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. ^7hKeep thee far from a false matter; ⁱand the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for ^kI will not justify the wicked. ⁸And ^lthou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth ^†the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. ⁹Also ^mthou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the ^†heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

¹⁰And ⁿsix years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: ¹¹But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy ^||oliveyard. ^12oSix days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. ¹³And in all things that I have said unto you be ^pcircumspect: and ^qmake no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

^14rThree ^stimes thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. ^15tThou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: ^uand none shall appear before me empty:) ^16xAnd the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and ^ythe feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. ¹⁷Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God. ^18zThou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my ^||sacrifice remain until the morning. ^19aThe first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God. ^bThou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

^20cBehold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. ²¹Beware of him, and obey his voice, ^dprovoke him not; for he will ^enot pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. ²²But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then ^fI will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and ^||an adversary unto thine adversaries. ^23gFor mine Angel shall go before thee, and ^hbring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. ²⁴Thou shalt not ⁱbow down to their gods, nor serve them, ^knor do after their works: ^lbut thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down ^mtheir images. ²⁵And ye shall ⁿserve the Lord your God, and ^ohe shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and ^pI will take sickness away from the midst of thee. ^26qThere shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will ^rfulfil. ²⁷I will send ^smy fear before thee, and will ^tdestroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their ^†backs unto thee. ²⁸And ^uI will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. ^29wI will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. ³⁰By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. ³¹And ^xI will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will ^ydeliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. ^32zThou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. ³³They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, ^ait will surely be a snare unto thee.