Exodus 22:24-23:19

English Standard Version

²⁴and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and ^(A)your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

²⁵^(B)“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him. ²⁶^(C)If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, ²⁷for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he ^(D)cries to me, I will hear, for I am ^(E)compassionate.

²⁸^(F)“You shall not revile God, nor ^(G)curse a ruler of your people.

²⁹“You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. ^(H)The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me. ³⁰^(I)You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: ^(J)seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

³¹^(K)“You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore ^(L)you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; ^(M)you shall throw it to the dogs.

23 ^(N)“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a ^(O)malicious witness. ²You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, ³^(P)nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.

⁴^(Q)“If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him. ⁵If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.

⁶^(R)“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. ⁷^(S)Keep far from a false charge, and ^(T)do not kill the innocent and righteous, for ^(U)I will not acquit the wicked. ⁸^(V)And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

⁹^(W)“You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals

¹⁰^(X)“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, ¹¹but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

¹²^(Y)“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.

¹³^(Z)“Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.

¹⁴^(AA)“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. ¹⁵^(AB)You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of ^(AC)Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. ^(AD)None shall appear before me empty-handed. ¹⁶You shall keep ^(AE)the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the ^(AF)Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. ¹⁷^(AG)Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.