公义与怜悯

23 “不可散布谣言,也不可与恶人一起作伪证陷害别人。 不可随众行恶。在法庭作证时不可附和多数人,颠倒是非。 在诉讼的事上不可偏袒穷人。

“倘若看见仇人的牛或驴走迷了路,总要牵回去交给他。 倘若遇见仇人的驴被驮的重物压倒,不可径自走开,总要帮助仇人抬开重物。

“不可在诉讼案中冤枉穷人。 不可诬告别人,不可杀害正直无辜的人,因为我必惩罚作恶之人。 不可收受贿赂,因为贿赂蒙蔽人的眼目,使人颠倒是非。 不可欺凌在你们中间寄居的人,因为你们也曾经在埃及寄居,知道身在异乡的滋味。

安息年和安息日

10 “六年之内你要耕种收割, 11 第七年要让土地休息,不耕不种,你们当中的穷人可以吃田中长出来的,剩下的可以留给动物吃。你也要这样耕作葡萄园和橄榄园。 12 六天之内,你要工作,但第七天要休息。这样,牛、驴可以歇息,你家里的奴仆和寄居的也可以休息。 13 你们要谨慎遵从我对你们说的话。不可提其他神明的名字,不可从你口中听到它们的名字。

三大节期

14 “你每年要向我守三个节期。 15 要守除酵节,照我的吩咐在每年亚笔月所定的日期连续吃七天的无酵饼,因为你是在这个月离开了埃及。谁也不可空手来朝拜我。 16 要在耕种后、收取初熟之物的时候守收割节。要在年终从田间收取劳动成果时守收藏节。 17 以色列所有的男子都要在这三个节期上来朝见主耶和华。

18 “不可把祭牲的血和有酵的饼一起献给我,也不可把祭牲的脂肪留到第二天早晨。 19 要把田中最好的初熟之物送到你们的上帝耶和华的殿中。不可用母山羊的奶煮它的小羊羔。

应许赐迦南

20 “看啊,我要差遣天使走在你前面,在路上保护你,带领你平安地到达我为你预备的地方。 21 他是奉我的名来的,你们要谨遵他的话,不可悖逆,不然他必不赦免你们的过犯。

22 “你若认真听从他的吩咐,遵行我的话,我就与你的仇敌为敌,与你的对头作对。 23 我的天使要走在你前面,带领你去亚摩利人、赫人、比利洗人、迦南人、希未人和耶布斯人所住的地方,我会把他们全部消灭。 24 不可叩拜他们的神明,不可供奉它们,也不可效法他们的行为,要彻底拆毁神像,打碎他们的神柱。 25 你们要事奉你们的上帝耶和华,我必赐给你日用的饮食,使你们身体健康,不受疾病的侵害, 26 在你境内必没有人流产或不育,我会使你寿终正寝。 27 你所到之处,我必使那里的人惶恐不安,使你一切的仇敌都在你面前转身逃跑。 28 我要派黄蜂做你的先锋,赶走那些希未人、迦南人和赫人。 29 我不会在一年之内把这些人全部赶走,免得土地荒凉,野兽肆虐。 30 我会逐渐地赶走他们,直到你们人丁兴旺,可以占据那片土地。 31 我给你定下国界,从红海到非利士海岸,从旷野到幼发拉底河。我要把其中所有的人都交在你手中,你要把他们全部赶出去。 32 不可跟这些民族及其神明立约, 33 也不可让这些民族住在你的土地上,免得他们使你得罪我,你若供奉他们的神明,必因此而陷入网罗。”

司法公正

23 “不可传播谣言,也不可与恶人携手作假见证。 不可随众行恶,不可在诉讼的事上随众说歪曲正义的话; 也不可在诉讼的事上偏护穷人。

“如果你遇见你仇敌的牛或是驴走迷了路,就应该把牠牵回来给他。 如果你看见恨你的人的驴伏在重担之下,不可走开不理牠,你应该与驴主一同卸下重担。 不可在穷人诉讼的事上歪曲正义。 要远离虚假的事;不可杀无辜和正义的人,因为我决不以恶人为义人。 不可受贿赂,因为贿赂能使明眼人变瞎,又能歪曲义人的话。 不可压迫寄居的,因为你们在埃及地也作过寄居的,知道寄居者的心情。

安息年与安息日

10 “六年之内你要耕种田地,收取地的出产; 11 但是第七年,你要让地歇息,不耕不种,使你民间的穷人可以有吃的;他们吃剩的,田间的野兽可以吃;你的葡萄园和橄榄园,也要这样作。 12 六日之内,你要作你的工;但第七日你要安息,好使你的牛和驴可以歇息,并且使你婢女的儿子和寄居的也可以有时间喘息一下。 13 我对你们所说的一切,你们都要小心谨守,你们不可提别神的名,也不可让人从你的口中听到。

当守的三个节期(A)

14 “每年三次,你要为我守节。 15 你要守无酵节,要照我吩咐的,在亚笔月内所定的日期,吃无酵饼七天,因为你是在这个月从埃及出来的。你们不可空手朝见我。 16 又要守收割节,就是收在田间你劳碌耕种所得初熟之物的节;也要在年底守收藏节,就是在田间收集你劳碌所得之物的时候。 17 一年三次,你所有的男丁都要朝见主耶和华的面。

18 “你不可把我祭牲的血和有酵的饼一同献上;也不可把我节日祭牲的脂油留过夜到早晨。 19 要把你地上最上好的初熟之物带到耶和华你 神的殿中。不可用山羊羔母的奶去煮山羊羔。

应许与训诲

20 “看哪,我在你面前差派使者,好在路上保护你,领你到我预备的地方去。 21 你们在他面前要谨慎,要听他的话,不可违背他;不然,他必不赦免你们的过犯,因为他是奉我的名来的。 22 如果你实在听他的话,遵行我吩咐的一切,我就要作你仇敌的仇敌,作你敌人的敌人。 23 我的使者必在你前面走,领你到亚摩利人、赫人、比利洗人、迦南人、希未人、耶布斯人那里去;我要把他们除掉。 24 你不可跪拜他们的神像,也不可事奉它们,不可作他们所作的,不可模仿他们的行为,却要把神像完全拆毁,打碎他们的柱像。 25 你们要事奉耶和华你们的 神,他就必赐福你的粮和你的水,我也必从你们中间除去疾病。 26 在你的境内,必没有流产和不育的妇女;我必使你一生的寿数满足。 27 我必在你面前展露我的威严;凡你所到的地方,我必使那里的人民慌乱,又使你所有的仇敌都转背而逃。 28 我必在你面前打发大黄蜂,把希未人、迦南人、赫人,都从你面前驱逐出去。 29 我不在一年之内把他们从你面前驱逐出去,恐怕这地变为荒凉,又恐怕田野间的走兽多起来害你。 30 我要渐渐地把他们从你面前驱逐出去,等到你的人数增多起来,承受那地为止。 31 我要限定你的境界,从红海直到非利士海,从旷野直到大河。我要把那地的居民交在你手中,你要把他们从你面前驱逐出去。 32 不可与他们和他们的神立约。 33 不可让他们住在你的境内,恐怕他们使你得罪我;如果你事奉他们的神,这必成为你的网罗。”

23 “You are not to repeat false rumors; do not join hands with the wicked by offering perjured testimony. Do not follow the crowd when it does what is wrong; and don’t allow the popular view to sway you into offering testimony for any cause if the effect will be to pervert justice. On the other hand, don’t favor a person’s lawsuit simply because he is poor.

“If you come upon your enemy’s ox or donkey straying, you must return it to him. If you see the donkey which belongs to someone who hates you lying down helpless under its load, you are not to pass him by but to go and help him free it.

(v) “Do not deny anyone justice in his lawsuit simply because he is poor. Keep away from fraud, and do not cause the death of the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked. You are not to receive a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clearsighted and subverts the cause of the righteous.

“You are not to oppress a foreigner, for you know how a foreigner feels, since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

10 “For six years, you are to sow your land with seed and gather in its harvest. 11 But the seventh year, you are to let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people can eat; and what they leave, the wild animals in the countryside can eat. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

12 “For six days, you are to work. But on the seventh day, you are to rest, so that your ox and donkey can rest, and your slave-girl’s son and the foreigner be renewed.

13 “Pay attention to everything I have said to you; do not invoke the names of other gods or even let them be heard crossing your lips.

14 “Three times a year, you are to observe a festival for me. 15 Keep the festival of matzah: for seven days, as I ordered you, you are to eat matzah at the time determined in the month of Aviv; for it was in that month that you left Egypt. No one is to appear before me empty-handed. 16 Next, the festival of harvest, the firstfruits of your efforts sowing in the field; and last, the festival of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in from the fields the results of your efforts. 17 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Lord, Adonai.

18 “You are not to offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, nor is the fat of my festival to remain all night until morning.

19 “You are to bring the best firstfruits of your land into the house of Adonai your God.

“You are not to boil a young animal in its mother’s milk.

(vi) 20 “I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared. 21 Pay attention to him, listen to what he says and do not rebel against him; because he will not forgive any wrongdoing of yours, since my name resides in him. 22 But if you listen to what he says and do everything I tell you, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes. 23 When my angel goes ahead of you and brings you to the Emori, Hitti, P’rizi, Kena‘ani, Hivi and Y’vusi, I will make an end of them. 24 You are not to worship their gods, serve them or follow their practices; rather, you are to demolish them completely and smash their standing-stones to pieces.

25 “You are to serve Adonai your God; and he will bless your food and water. I will take sickness away from among you. (vii) 26 In your land your women will not miscarry or be barren, and you will live out the full span of your lives. 27 I will send terror of me ahead of you, throwing into confusion all the people to whom you come; and I will make all your enemies turn their backs on you. 28 I will send hornets ahead of you to drive out the Hivi, Kena‘ani and Hitti from before you. 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, which would cause the land to become desolate and the wild animals too many for you. 30 I will drive them out from before you gradually, until you have grown in number and can take possession of the land. 31 I will set your boundaries from the Sea of Suf to the sea of the P’lishtim and from the desert to the [Euphrates] River, for I will hand the inhabitants of the land over to you, and you will drive them out from before you. 32 You are not to make a covenant with them or with their gods. 33 They are not to live in your land; otherwise they will make you sin against me by ensnaring you to serve their gods.”