^23:1 You will not take up a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked man to be an unrighteous witness.

    ^23:2 You will not follow a multitude to do evil, neither will you speak in a case to turn aside after a multitude to distort justice, ^23:3 neither will you favor a poor man in his case.

    ^23:4 If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey wandering, you will surely bring it back to him again. ^23:5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you lying under his burden, you will refrain leaving him. You will surely release it with him.

    ^23:6 You will not distort the justice due to your poor in his case.

    ^23:7 Keep far from a false matter. And do not kill an innocent and righteous man, because I will not justify a wicked man.

    ^23:8 And you will take no bribe, because a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

    ^23:9 And you will not oppress a traveler, because you^* know the heart of a traveler, because you^* were travelers in the land of Egypt.

    ^23:10 And six years you will sow your land and will gather in the increase of it, ^23:11 but the seventh year you will let it rest and lie tillable, that the poor of your people may eat and what they leave the beast of the field will eat. In like manner you will deal with your vineyard and with your olive-grove.

    ^23:12 Six days you will do your work and on the seventh day you will rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest and the son of your handmaid and the traveler, may be refreshed.

    ^23:13 And in all things that I have said to you^* take heed and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth.

    ^23:14 Three times you will keep a feast to me in the year. ^23:15 You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib, because in it you came out from Egypt and none will appear before me empty), ^23:16 and the Feast of Harvest, the first-fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field. ^23:17 Three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord Jehovah.

    ^23:18 You will not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, neither will the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.

    ^23:19 The first of the first-fruits of your ground you will bring into the house of Jehovah your God. You will not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

    ^23:20 Behold, I send a messenger before you, to keep you by the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. ^23:21 You^* take heed before him and listen to his voice, provoke him not. Because he will not pardon your^* transgression, because my name is in him.

    ^23:22 But if you will indeed listen to his voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. ^23:23 Because my messenger will go before you and bring you in to the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite, the Hivite and the Jebusite and I will cut them off.

    ^23:24 You will not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works, but you will utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.

    ^23:25 And you^* will serve Jehovah your^* God and he will bless your bread and your water and I will take sickness away from the midst of you. ^23:26 None will cast her young, nor be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.

    ^23:27 I will send my terror before you and will destroy all the people to whom you will come and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.^23:28 And I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, 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 beasts of the field multiply against you. ^23:30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you are increased and inherit the land.

    ^23:31 And I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines and from the wilderness to the River. Because 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 dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, because if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.