23 ^(A)“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a ^(B)malicious witness. ² You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, ^3 (C)nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.

^4 (D)“If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him. ⁵ If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.

^6 (E)“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. ^7 (F)Keep far from a false charge, and ^(G)do not kill the innocent and righteous, for ^(H)I will not acquit the wicked. ^8 (I)And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

^9 (J)“You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals

^10 (K)“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, ¹¹ but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

^12 (L)“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.

^13 (M)“Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.

^14 (N)“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. ^15 (O)You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of ^(P)Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. ^(Q)None shall appear before me empty-handed. ¹⁶ You shall keep ^(R)the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the ^(S)Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. ^17 (T)Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.

^18 (U)“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.

¹⁹ “The best of the ^(V)firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.

^(W)“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Conquest of Canaan Promised

^20 (X)“Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. ²¹ Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; ^(Y)do not rebel against him, ^(Z)for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.

²² “But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then ^(AA)I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

^23 (AB)“When my angel goes before you and brings you ^(AC)to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, ²⁴ you shall ^(AD)not bow down to their gods nor serve them, ^(AE)nor do as they do, but ^(AF)you shall utterly overthrow them and break their ^(AG)pillars in pieces. ²⁵ You ^(AH)shall serve the Lord your God, and ^(AI)he^[a] will bless your bread and your water, and ^(AJ)I will take sickness away from among you. ^26 (AK)None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the ^(AL)number of your days. ²⁷ I will send ^(AM)my terror before you and will throw into ^(AN)confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. ²⁸ And ^(AO)I will send hornets^[b] before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. ^29 (AP)I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you. ³⁰ Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. ^31 (AQ)And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates,^[c] for ^(AR)I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. ^32 (AS)You shall make no covenant with them and their gods. ³³ They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, ^(AT)it will surely be a snare to you.”