Exodus 22:18-31

New International Version - UK

¹⁸ ‘Do not allow a sorceress to live.

¹⁹ ‘Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal is to be put to death.

²⁰ ‘Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the Lord must be destroyed.^[a]

²¹ ‘Do not ill-treat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.

²² ‘Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. ²³ If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. ²⁴ My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.

²⁵ ‘If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest. ²⁶ If you take your neighbour’s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset, ²⁷ because that cloak is the only covering your neighbour has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

²⁸ ‘Do not blaspheme God^[b] or curse the ruler of your people.

²⁹ ‘Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats.^[c]

‘You must give me the firstborn of your sons. ³⁰ Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.

³¹ ‘You are to be my holy people. So do not eat the meat of an animal torn by wild beasts; throw it to the dogs.