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Exodus 23

    ²Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from the truth.

    ³Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment.

    ⁴If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him.

    ⁵If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his burden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with him.

    ⁶Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.

    ⁷Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.

    ⁸Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.

    ⁹Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

    ¹⁰Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn thereof.

    ¹¹But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer it to rest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and whatsoever shall be left, let the beasts of the field eat it: so shalt thou do with thy vineyard and thy oliveyard.

    ¹²Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt cease, that thy ox and thy ass may rest: and the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed.

    ¹³Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of strange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your mouth.

    ¹⁴Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.

    ¹⁵Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear empty before me.

    ¹⁶And the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy work, whatsoever thou hast sown in the field. The feast also in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in all thy corn out of the field.

    ¹⁷Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God.

    ¹⁸Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven, neither shall the fat of my solemnity remain until the morning.

    ¹⁹Thou shalt carry the firstfruits of the corn of thy ground to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

    ²⁰Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have prepared.

    ²¹Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think him one to be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my name is in him.

    ²²But if thou wilt hear his voice, and do all that I speak, I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee.

    ²³And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, whom I will destroy.

    ²⁴Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues.

    ²⁵And you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless your bread and your waters, and may take away sickness from the midst of thee.

    ²⁶There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land: I will fill the number of thy days.

    ²⁷I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies before thee.

    ²⁸Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before thou come in.

    ²⁹I will not cast them out from thy face in one year: lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee.

    ³⁰By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, till thou be increased, and dost possess the land.

    ³¹And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from before you.

    ³²Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods.

    ³³Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps thy make thee sin against me, if thou serve their god: which undoubtedly will be a scandal to thee.

Exodus 24

    ²And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord, but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people come up with him.

    ³So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will do all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken.

    ⁴And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the morning he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

    ⁵And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord.

    ⁶Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls: and the rest he poured upon the altar.

    ⁷And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken we will do, we will be obedient.

    ⁸And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said: This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

    ⁹Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel went up:

    ¹⁰And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.

    ¹¹Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and drink.

    ¹²And the Lord said to Moses: Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and the law, and the commandments which I have written: that thou mayst teach them.

    ¹³Moses rose up, and his minister Josue: and Moses going up into the mount of God,

    ¹⁴Said to the ancients: Wait ye here till we return to you. You have Aaron and Hur with you: if any question shall arise, you shall refer it to them.

    ¹⁵And when Moses was gone up, a cloud covered the mount.

    ¹⁶And the glory of the Lord dwelt upon Sinai, covering it with a cloud six days: and the seventh day he called him out of the midst of the cloud.

    ¹⁷And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like a burning fire upon the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel.

    ¹⁸And Moses, entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the mountain: and he was there forty days, and forty nights.

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Matthew 20

    ²And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

    ³And going about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market place idle.

    ⁴And he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just.

    ⁵And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner.

    ⁶But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle?

    ⁷They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go you also into my vineyard.

    ⁸And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward: Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first.

    ⁹When therefore they were come, that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

    ¹⁰But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: and they also received every man a penny.

    ¹¹And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,

    ¹²Saying: These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats.

    ¹³But he answering said to one of them: Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny?

    ¹⁴Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this last even as to thee.

    ¹⁵Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? is thy eye evil, because I am good?

    ¹⁶So shall the last be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.