23 “^(A)You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a ^(B)malicious witness. ² You shall not follow ^[a]the masses in doing evil, nor shall you ^[b]testify in a case so as to turn aside after ^[c]the masses in order to ^[d](C)cause justice to be turned aside; ^3 (D)nor shall you ^[e]be partial to a poor man in his case.

⁴ “^(E)If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him. ^5 (F)If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him.

⁶ “^(G)You shall not cause the justice due to your needy brother to be turned aside in his case. ^7 (H)Keep far from a ^[f]false charge, and ^(I)do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for ^(J)I will not justify the guilty.

⁸ “^(K)And you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and ^[g]subverts the cause of the ^[h]just.

⁹ “^(L)And you shall not oppress a sojourner, since you yourselves know the soul of a sojourner, for you also were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Judgments About Work and Rest

¹⁰ “^(M)Now you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its produce, ¹¹ but on the seventh year you shall let it ^[i]rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. Thus you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

¹² “^(N)Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall ^[j]rest so that your ox and your donkey may ^[k]rest, and the son of your maidservant, as well as your sojourner, may refresh themselves. ¹³ Now ^(O)concerning everything which I have said to you, beware; and ^(P)do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard ^[l]from your mouth.

Judgments About National Feasts

¹⁴ “^(Q)Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. ¹⁵ You shall keep ^(R)the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the ^(S)month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And ^[m](T)none shall appear before Me empty-handed. ¹⁶ Also you shall keep ^(U)the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year ^(V)when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field. ^17 (W)Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁸ “^(X)You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; ^(Y)nor is the fat of My ^[n]feast to remain overnight until morning.

¹⁹ “You shall bring ^(Z)the choice first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God.

“^(AA)You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

Yahweh Will Drive Out Israel’s Enemies

²⁰ “Behold, I am going to send ^(AB)an angel before you to keep you along the way and ^(AC)to bring you into the place which I have prepared. ²¹ Keep watch of yourself before him and listen to his voice; ^(AD)do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since ^(AE)My name is in him. ²² But if you truly listen to his voice and do all that I speak, then ^(AF)I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. ^23 (AG)For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will annihilate them. ^24 (AH)You shall not worship their gods, you shall not serve them, and you shall not do according to their deeds; ^(AI)but you shall utterly pull them down and shatter their ^(AJ)sacred pillars in pieces. ^25 (AK)But you shall serve Yahweh your God, ^[o]and He will bless your bread and your water; and ^(AL)I will remove sickness from your midst. ²⁶ There shall be no one miscarrying or ^(AM)barren in your land; ^(AN)I will fulfill the number of your days. ²⁷ I will ^(AO)send My terror ahead of you and ^(AP)throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will ^(AQ)make all your enemies ^[p]turn their backs to you. ²⁸ And I will send ^(AR)hornets ahead of you so that they will ^(AS)drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you. ^29 (AT)I will not drive them out before you in a single year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. ³⁰ I will drive them out before you ^(AU)little by little, until you become fruitful and take the land as an inheritance. ^31 (AV)And I will set your boundary from the ^[q]Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the ^[r]River; ^(AW)for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will ^(AX)drive them out from before you. ^32 (AY)You shall cut no covenant with them ^(AZ)or with their gods. ^33 (BA)They shall not live in your land, lest they make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, ^(BB)it will surely be a snare to you.”