Exodus, 23

1. Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

1. Do not make false statements. And do not join hands with the wicked by being a malicious witness.

2. Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]:

2. Do not follow the majority when they do evil, or when they pervert justice in a lawsuit.

3. Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

3. Do not be partial, not even to the poor.

4. If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

4. If you see your enemy's ox or donkey going astray, take it back to him.

5. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

5. When you see the donkey of a man who hates you falling under its load, do not pass by but help him.

6. Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

6. Do not deny justice to any of your poor in a lawsuit.

7. Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

7. Keep away from lies. Do not slay the innocent or the just, for I will not forgive the wicked.

8. And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

8. And do not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the clear-sighted and perverts the sentence of the just.

9. Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

9. Do not oppress a stranger; you know what it is to be a stranger, for that is what you were in the land of Egypt.

10. And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

10. For six years you will sow your fields and reap their produce,

11. But the seventh [year] thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard.

11. but in the seventh you will let the land rest and lie fallow. The poor may eat what it produces and what they leave the wild animals will eat. It will be the same for your vineyard and your olive grove.

12. Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

12. For six days you shall work but on the seventh you shall rest, so that your ox and your donkey may also rest and the son of your slave girl and the stranger as well may have a breathing space.

13. And in all [things] that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

13. Pay attention to all that I tell you and do not call upon other gods; don't let their names be heard on your lips.

14. Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

14. Three times each year you shall celebrate a feast in my honor.

15. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)

15. You shall keep the feast of Unleavened Bread, as I commanded you, and eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for it was then that you left Egypt. And do not come to me empty-handed.

16. And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, [which is] in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

16. You shall keep the feast of the Harvest with the feast of the first harvest of what you sowed in your fields. Then the feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you gather in the fruit of your labor in the fields.

17. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

17. Three times during the year all your men shall present themselves before Yahweh.

18. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

18. Do not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread or let the fat of my feast remain until morning.

19. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

19. The first of the first fruits of your soil you will bring to the house of Yahweh, your God. Do not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

20. Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

20. See, I am sending an Angel before you to keep you safe on the way and bring you to the place I have made ready.

21. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name [is] in him.

21. Be on your guard in his presence and listen to him; do not resist him for he will not pardon your wrong-doing, for my name is in him.

22. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

22. If you listen to him and do what I say, I will be enemy to your enemies and the opponent of your opponents.

23. For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.

23. My Angel will go before you and bring you to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; all these I will destroy.

24. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

24. You shall not bow down before their gods or serve them, or act according to their ways; rather you will destroy them utterly and smash their sacred stones.

25. And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

25. If you serve Yahweh, your God, he will bless your bread and your water - and I will keep sickness away from you.

26. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

26. No woman among you will miscarry or be barren. I will fulfill the number of your days.

27. I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

27. Now I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion all the people you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn and flee before you.

28. And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

28. I will send hornets ahead of you to drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites and the Hittites.

29. I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

29. I will not drive them out in a single year lest the land become a desert and the wild beasts increase and molest you.

30. By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

30. I will drive them out before you little by little until your number increase and you are able to take possession of the land.

31. And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

31. I will fix your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines and from the Wilderness to the Euphrates; for I will deliver into your power the inhabitants of the land and I will drive them out before you.

32. Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

32. You shall make no treaty with them or with their gods.

33. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

33. They shall not live in your country lest they lead you to sin against me and to serve their gods. That would surely be a snare for you."