Justice for All

23 “You ^(A)shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an ^(B)unrighteous witness. ^2 (C)You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; ^(D)nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice. ³ You shall not show partiality to a ^(E)poor man in his dispute.

^4 (F)“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. ^5 (G)If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.

^6 (H)“You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute. ^7 (I)Keep yourself far from a false matter; ^(J)do not kill the innocent and righteous. For ^(K)I will not justify the wicked. ⁸ And ^(L)you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.

⁹ “Also ^(M)you shall not oppress a ^[a]stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

The Law of Sabbaths

^10 (N)“Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce, ¹¹ but 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. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your ^[b]olive grove. ^12 (O)Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.

¹³ “And in all that I have said to you, ^(P)be circumspect and ^(Q)make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth.

Three Annual Feasts^(R)

^14 (S)“Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year: ^15 (T)You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; ^(U)none shall appear before Me empty); ^16 (V)and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and ^(W)the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.

^17 (X)“Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord ^[c]God.

^18 (Y)“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened ^(Z)bread; nor shall the fat of My ^[d]sacrifice remain until morning. ^19 (AA)The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. ^(AB)You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

The Angel and the Promises

^20 (AC)“Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. ²¹ Beware of Him and obey His voice; ^(AD)do not provoke Him, for He will ^(AE)not pardon your transgressions; for ^(AF)My name is in Him. ²² But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then ^(AG)I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. ^23 (AH)For My Angel will go before you and ^(AI)bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will ^[e]cut them off. ²⁴ You shall not ^(AJ)bow down to their gods, nor serve them, ^(AK)nor do according to their works; ^(AL)but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.

²⁵ “So you shall ^(AM)serve the Lord your God, and ^(AN)He will bless your bread and your water. And ^(AO)I will take sickness away from the midst of you. ^26 (AP)No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will ^(AQ)fulfill the number of your days.

²⁷ “I will send ^(AR)My fear before you, I will ^(AS)cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. ²⁸ And ^(AT)I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you. ^29 (AU)I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. ³⁰ Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land. ³¹ And ^(AV)I will set your ^[f]bounds from the Red Sea to the sea, Philistia, and from the desert to the ^[g]River. For I will ^(AW)deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. ^32 (AX)You shall make no ^[h]covenant with them, nor with their gods. ³³ They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, ^(AY)it will surely be a snare to you.”

Jesus Transfigured on the Mount

^2 (A)Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. ³ His clothes became shining, exceedingly ^(B)white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. ⁴ And Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. ⁵ Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah”— ⁶ because he did not know what to say, for they were greatly afraid.

⁷ And a ^(C)cloud came and overshadowed them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is ^(D)My beloved Son. ^(E)Hear Him!” ⁸ Suddenly, when they had looked around, they saw no one anymore, but only Jesus with themselves.

^9 (F)Now as they came down from the mountain, He commanded them that they should tell no one the things they had seen, till the Son of Man had risen from the dead. ¹⁰ So they kept this word to themselves, questioning ^(G)what the rising from the dead meant.

¹¹ And they asked Him, saying, “Why do the scribes say ^(H)that Elijah must come first?”

¹² Then He answered and told them, “Indeed, Elijah is coming first and restores all things. And ^(I)how is it written concerning the Son of Man, that He must suffer many things and ^(J)be treated with contempt? ¹³ But I say to you that ^(K)Elijah has also come, and they did to him whatever they wished, as it is written of him.”

A Boy Is Healed^(L)

^14 (M)And when He came to the disciples, He saw a great multitude around them, and scribes disputing with them. ¹⁵ Immediately, when they saw Him, all the people were greatly amazed, and running to Him, greeted Him. ¹⁶ And He asked the scribes, “What are you discussing with them?”

¹⁷ Then ^(N)one of the crowd answered and said, “Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit. ¹⁸ And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast it out, but they could not.”

¹⁹ He answered him and said, “O ^(O)faithless^[a] generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I ^[b]bear with you? Bring him to Me.” ²⁰ Then they brought him to Him. And ^(P)when he saw Him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground and wallowed, foaming at the mouth.

²¹ So He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?”

And he said, “From childhood. ²² And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

²³ Jesus said to him, ^(Q)“If^[c] you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

²⁴ Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; ^(R)help my unbelief!”

²⁵ When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He ^(S)rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!” ²⁶ Then the spirit cried out, convulsed him greatly, and came out of him. And he became as one dead, so that many said, “He is dead.” ²⁷ But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.

^28 (T)And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”

²⁹ So He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but ^(U)prayer ^[d]and fasting.”

Jesus Again Predicts His Death and Resurrection

³⁰ Then they departed from there and passed through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know it. ^31 (V)For He taught His disciples and said to them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will ^(W)kill Him. And after He is killed, He will ^(X)rise the third day.” ³² But they ^(Y)did not understand this saying, and were afraid to ask Him.