Old/New Testament
23 “You shall not bring a false report, nor shall you put in your hand with the wicked, to be a false witness.
2 “You shall not follow a multitude to evil, nor testify in a dispute to follow after many and pervert justice.
3 “You shall not be partial to a poor man in his cause.
4 “If you meet your enemy’s ox, or his donkey, going astray, you shall bring it back to him.
5 “If you see your enemy’s donkey lying under his load, and would decline to help him, you shall indeed help him up again with it.
6 “You shall not pervert the rights of the poor in his suit.
7 “You shall keep yourself far from a false matter. You shall kill neither the innocent nor the righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.
8 “You shall take no gifts. For a gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
9 “You shall not oppress a stranger. For you know the heart of a stranger, seeing you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
10 “Moreover, six years you shall sow your land, and gather its fruits.
11 “But the seventh year, you shall let it rest, and lie still, so that the poor of your people may eat. And what they leave, the wild animals shall eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard and with your olive trees.
12 “Six days you shall do your work; and on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maid and the stranger may be refreshed.
13 “And you shall pay attention to all things which I have said to you. And you shall make no mention of the name of other gods, nor shall it be heard from your mouth.
14 “You shall keep a Feast to Me three times during the year.
15 “You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread: You shall eat unleavened bread for seven days, as I commanded you, in the season of the month of Abib. For in it, you came out of Egypt. And no one shall appear before Me empty.
16 Also, The Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors (which you have sown in the field) and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors from the field.
17 “Three times in the year shall all your male children appear before the Lord GOD.
18 “You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread. Nor shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until the morning.
19 “The first of the firstfruits of your land, you shall bring into the House of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
20 “Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you on your way, and to bring you to the place which I have prepared.
21 “Pay attention to him and hear his voice. Do not provoke him. For he will not spare your misdeeds, because my Name is in him.
22 “But if you listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and will afflict those who afflict you.
23 “For My angel shall go before you, and bring you to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will destroy them.
24 “You shall neither bow down to their gods nor serve them nor do according the works of them. But utterly overthrow them and break their images in pieces.
25 “For you shall serve the LORD your God; and He shall bless your bread and your water. And I will take all sickness away from the midst of you.
26 “No one shall miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
27 “I will send My fear before you and will destroy all the people among whom you shall go. And I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
28 “And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
29 “I will not cast them out from before you in one year, lest the land grow into a wilderness, and the wild animals multiply against you.
30 “I will gradually drive them out from before you, until you increase and inherit the land.
31 “And I will make your boundaries from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and you shall drive them out from before you.
32 “You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
33 “Nor shall they dwell in the land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it shall surely be to your destruction.”
24 Now, he had said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. And you shall worship at a distance.
2 “And Moses, by himself, shall come near to the LORD. But they shall not come near, nor shall the people go up with him.”
3 Afterward, Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the Laws. And all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the things which the LORD has said, we will do.”
4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early, and set up an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings of oxen, and sacrificed peace offerings to the LORD.
6 Then, Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins; and he sprinkled half of the blood on the altar.
7 Afterward, he took the Book of the Covenant, and read it in the audience of the people, who said, “All that the LORD has said, we will do, and be obedient.”
8 Then, Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold, the blood of the Covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these things.”
9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
10 And they saw the God of Israel. And under His feet was, as it were, a pavement of sapphire stone, as clear as the sky itself.
11 But He did not lay His hand upon the nobles of the children of Israel. They, also, saw God, and ate and drank.
12 And the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me onto the mountain, and be there. And I will give you Tablets of stone, and the Law, and the Commandment which I have written, to teach them.”
13 Then Moses and his minister, Joshua, rose up. And Moses went up onto the Mountain of God,
14 and said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has any matters, let him come to them.
15 Then, Moses went up to the mount; and the cloud covered the mountain.
16 And the Glory of the LORD remained upon Mount Sinai; and the cloud covered it for six days. And the seventh day, He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
17 And the sight of the Glory of the LORD on the top of the mountain was like a consuming fire in the eyes of the children of Israel.
18 And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up to the mountain. And Moses was on the mount for forty days and forty nights.
20 “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain landowner, who went out at the dawning of the day to hire laborers into his vineyard.
2 “And he agreed with the laborers for a penny a day and sent them into his vineyard.
3 “And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
4 “and said to them, ‘You go into my vineyard also. And whatever is right, I will give you.’ And they went their way.
5 “Again, he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
6 “And he went about the eleventh hour, and found others standing idle, and said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’
7 “They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into my vineyard also. And whatever is right, that shall you receive.’
8 “And when evening had come, the master of the vineyard said to his steward, ‘Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning at the last, till you come to the first.’
9 “And those who were hired about the eleventh hour, came. And each received a penny.
10 “Now when the first came, they assumed that they would receive more. But each of them also received a penny.
11 “And when they had received it, they murmured against the master of the house,
12 “saying, ‘These last have only worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and heat of the day!’
13 “And he answered one of them, saying, ‘Friend, I do you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a penny?
14 ‘Take that which is yours and go your way. I will give to this last as much as to you.
15 ‘Is it not lawful for me to do as I will with my own? Is your eye evil because I am good?’
16 “So the last shall be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.”
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