23:1 You will not take up¹ a false report.² Do not put your hand³ with the wicked⁴ to be a malicious⁵ witness.

23:2 You will not go after a crowd into evil things;⁶ neither will you give

testimony in a lawsuit by turning aside⁷ after a crowd to pervert justice. 23:3 And you will not show favor⁸ to a poor man in his lawsuit.

23:4 If you come on⁹ your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return¹⁰ it to him. 23:5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you lying under its load, you must not forsake him,¹¹ but be sure to help¹² him with it.¹³

23:6 You will not turn away justice for your poor in their lawsuits. 23:7 Keep your distance¹⁴ from a false charge¹⁵—do not kill the innocent and the righteous,¹⁶ for I do not justify the wicked.¹⁷

23:8 And you will not receive a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see,¹⁸ and subverts the words of the righteous.

23:9 And you will not oppress¹⁹ an alien, for you know the life²⁰ of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

23:10 For six years²² you will sow your land and gather in its produce. 23:11 And in the seventh year²³ you are to let it rest and lie unworked; that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. And in like manner you will deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove. 23:12 For six days²⁴ you will do your work, and on the seventh day you will cease; that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your handmaiden and your slave may refresh themselves.²⁵

23:13 Take heed to do²⁶ everything I have told you to do,²⁷ and do not make mention²⁸ of the names of other gods, do not let them be heard on your mouth.²⁹

23:14 Three times³⁰ in the year you will make a pilgrim feast³¹ to me. 23:15 You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days³² you will eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib; for at that time³³ you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before³⁴ me empty;

23:16 and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering, at the end of the year³⁵ when you have gathered in³⁶ your labors³⁷ out of the field. 23:17 At³⁸ three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord Yahweh.³⁹

23:18 You will not offer⁴⁰ the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither will the fat of my festal sacrifice remain until morning.⁴¹ 23:19 The first of the firstfruit of your soil you will bring to the house of Yahweh your God.

You will not seethe a kid in its mother’s milk.⁴²

23:20 I am going to send⁴⁴ an Angel⁴⁵ before you, to protect you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.⁴⁶ 23:21 Take heed⁴⁷ because of him, and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name⁴⁸ is in him. 23:22 But if you diligently obey him,⁴⁹ and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will be an adversary to your adversaries. 23:23 For my Angel will go before you, and bring you in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.

23:24 You will not bow down to their gods, neither will you serve them, nor do according to their practices. But you will completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones⁵⁰ to pieces.⁵¹ 23:25 But you will serve⁵² Yahweh your God, and he⁵³ will bless your bread and your water,⁵⁴ and I will remove sickness from your midst. 23:26 None will cast her young⁵⁵ or be barren in your land. I will fulfill⁵⁶ the number of your days.

23:27 I will send my fear⁵⁷ before you, and I will destroy⁵⁸ all the people to

whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs⁵⁹ to you. 23:28 I will send⁶⁰ hornets before you, which will drive out the Hivite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. 23:29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against you. 23:30 Little by little⁶¹ I will drive them out from before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land. 23:31 And I will set⁶² your boundaries from the Red Sea⁶³ even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river,⁶⁴ for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

23:32 You will make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 23:33 They will not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare⁶⁵ to you.