Exodus 23

23"Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.H5375H7723H8088H7896H3027H7563H2555H57072"Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd,H310H7227H7451H6030H7379H5186H310H7227H51863and do not show favoritism to the poor in a lawsuit.H1921H1800H73794"If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it.H6293H341H7794H2543H8582H7725H7725H77255If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help your enemy with it.H7200H2543H8130H7257H4853H2308H5800H5800H58006"Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.H5186H4941H34H73797Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.H7368H8267H1697H5355H6662H2026H6663H75638"Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.H3947H7810H7810H5786H6493H5557H1697H66629"Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.H3905H1616H3045H5315H1616H3588H1616H776H471410"For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops,H8337H8141H2232H776H622H839311but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.H7637H8058H5203H34H5971H398H3499H2416H7704H398H6213H3754H213212"Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the slave born in your household, and the foreigner among you as well, may be refreshed.H8337H3117H6213H4639H7637H3117H7673H7794H2543H5117H1121H519H1616H531413"Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.H559H8104H2142H8034H312H430H8085H5921H631014"Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.H7969H7272H2287H814115"Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. "No one is to appear before me empty-handed.H8104H2282H4682H398H4682H7651H3117H6680H4150H2320H24H3318H4714H7200H6440H738716"Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. "Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.H2282H7105H1061H4639H2232H7704H2282H614H3318H8141H622H4639H770417"Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD.H7969H6471H8141H2138H7200H6440H113H306818"Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast. "The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.H2076H1818H2077H2557H2459H2282H3885H124219"Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.H7225H1061H127H935H1004H3068H430H1310H1423H517H246120"See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.H7971H4397H6440H8104H1870H935H4725H355921Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him.H8104H6440H8085H6963H4843H5375H6588H8034H713022If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you.H8085H8085H6963H6213H1696H340H341H6887H669623My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.H4397H3212H6440H935H567H2850H6522H3669H2340H2983H358224Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces.H7812H430H5647H6213H4639H2040H2040H7665H7665H467625Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you,H5647H3068H430H1288H3899H4325H5493H4245H5493H713026and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.H7921H6135H776H4557H3117H439027"I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run.H7971H367H6440H2000H5971H935H5414H341H620328I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.H7971H6880H6440H1644H2340H3669H2850H644029But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.H1644H6440H259H8141H776H8077H2416H7704H722730Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.H4592H4592H1644H6440H6509H5157H77631"I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you.H7896H1366H5488H3220H3220H6430H4057H5104H5414H3427H776H3027H1644H644032Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods.H3772H1285H43033Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you."H3427H776H2398H5647H430H4170