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Exodus 23

   
 ²Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause, following many, to divert judgment.

   
 ³Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

   
 ⁴"If 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.

   
 ⁶"Thou shalt not divert the judgment from thy poor in his cause.

   
 ⁷Keep thee far from a false matter, and the innocent and righteous slay thou not; for I will not justify the wicked.

   
 ⁸And thou shalt take no bribe, for the bribe blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the righteous.

   
 ⁹"Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

   
 ¹⁰"And six 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 olive trees.

   
 ¹²"Six 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 circumspect; and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

   
 ¹⁴"Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year.

   
 ¹⁵Thou shalt keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it thou camest out from Egypt; and none shall appear before Me empty),

   
 ¹⁶and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of thy labors which thou hast sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering, which is at the end of the year when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field.

   
 ¹⁷Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

   
 ¹⁸"Thou shalt not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until the morning.

   
 ¹⁹"The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. "Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother's milk.

   
 ²⁰"Behold, I send an angel before thee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

   
 ²¹Have regard for him, and obey his voice. Provoke him not, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for My name is in him.

   
 ²²But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

   
 ²³For Mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites and the Hittites, and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.

   
 ²⁴Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them and quite break down their images.

   
 ²⁵And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and He shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

   
 ²⁶None shall cast their young nor be barren in thy land; the number of thy days I will fulfill.

   
 ²⁷"I will send My fear before thee and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

   
 ²⁸And I will send hornets before thee which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee.

   
 ²⁹I 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.

   
 ³⁰Little by little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased and inherit the land.

   
 ³¹And I 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 deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

   
 ³²Thou 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, it will surely be a snare unto thee."

Exodus 24

   
 ²And Moses alone shall come near the LORD; but they shall not come nigh, neither shall the people go up with him."

   
 ³And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the judgments; and all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words which the LORD hath said will we do."

   
 ⁴And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning and built an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

   
 ⁵And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

   
 ⁶And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

   
 ⁷And he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the audience of the people; and they said, "All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient."

   
 ⁸And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words."

   
 ⁹Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel;

   
 ¹⁰and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

   
 ¹¹And upon the nobles of the children of Israel He laid not His hand. Also they saw God, and ate and drank.

   
 ¹²And the LORD said unto Moses, "Come up to Me onto the mount, and be there; and I will give thee tablets of stone, and a law and commandments which I have written, that thou mayest teach them."

   
 ¹³And Moses rose up with his minister Joshua, and Moses went up onto the mount of God.

   
 ¹⁴And he said unto the elders, "Tarry ye here for us until we come again unto you; and behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. If any man have any matters to arbitrate, let him come unto them."

   
 ¹⁵And Moses went up onto the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

   
 ¹⁶And the glory of the LORD abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and the seventh day He called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

   
 ¹⁷And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

   
 ¹⁸And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and got himself up onto the mount; and Moses was on the mount forty days and forty nights.

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Matthew 20

   
 ²And when he had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

   
 ³And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

   
 ⁴and said unto them, `Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you.' And they went their way.

   
 ⁵Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour and did likewise.

   
 ⁶And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said unto them, `Why stand ye here all the day idle?'

   
 ⁷They said unto him, `Because no man hath hired us.' He said unto them, `Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.'

   
 ⁸So when evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said unto his steward, `Call the laborers and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.'

   
 ⁹And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

   
 ¹⁰But when the first came, they supposed they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.

   
 ¹¹And when they had received it, they murmured against the master of the house,

   
 ¹²saying, `These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day.'

   
 ¹³But he answered one of them and said, `Friend, I do thee no wrong. Didst thou not agree with me for a penny?

   
 ¹⁴Take that which is thine and go thy way. I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

   
 ¹⁵Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?'

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