Exodus 23

Revised Geneva Translation

23 “You shall not bring a false report, nor shall you put in your hand with the wicked, to be a false witness.

² “You shall not follow a multitude to evil, nor testify in a dispute to follow after many and pervert justice.

³ “You shall not be partial to a poor man in his cause.

⁴ “If you meet your enemy’s ox, or his donkey, going astray, you shall bring it back to him.

⁵ “If you see your enemy’s donkey lying under his load, and would decline to help him, you shall indeed help him up again with it.

⁶ “You shall not pervert the rights of the poor in his suit.

⁷ “You shall keep yourself far from a false matter. You shall kill neither the innocent nor the righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.

⁸ “You shall take no gifts. For a gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

⁹ “You shall not oppress a stranger. For you know the heart of a stranger, seeing you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ “Moreover, six years you shall sow your land, and gather its fruits.

¹¹ “But the seventh year, you shall let it rest, and lie still, so that the poor of your people may eat. And what they leave, the wild animals shall eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard and with your olive trees.

¹² “Six days you shall do your work; and on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maid and the stranger may be refreshed.

¹³ “And you shall pay attention to all things which I have said to you. And you shall make no mention of the name of other gods, nor shall it be heard from your mouth.

¹⁴ “You shall keep a Feast to Me three times during the year.

¹⁵ “You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread: You shall eat unleavened bread for seven days, as I commanded you, in the season of the month of Abib. For in it, you came out of Egypt. And no one shall appear before Me empty.

¹⁶ Also, The Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors (which you have sown in the field) and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors from the field.

¹⁷ “Three times in the year shall all your male children appear before the Lord GOD.

¹⁸ “You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread. Nor shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until the morning.

¹⁹ “The first of the firstfruits of your land, you shall bring into the House of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

²⁰ “Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you on your way, and to bring you to the place which I have prepared.

²¹ “Pay attention to him and hear his voice. Do not provoke him. For he will not spare your misdeeds, because my Name is in him.

²² “But if you listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and will afflict those who afflict you.

²³ “For My angel shall go before you, and bring you to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will destroy them.

²⁴ “You shall neither bow down to their gods nor serve them nor do according the works of them. But utterly overthrow them and break their images in pieces.

²⁵ “For you shall serve the LORD your God; and He shall bless your bread and your water. And I will take all sickness away from the midst of you.

²⁶ “No one shall miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

²⁷ “I will send My fear before you and will destroy all the people among whom you shall go. And I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

²⁸ “And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.

²⁹ “I will not cast them out from before you in one year, lest the land grow into a wilderness, and the wild animals multiply against you.

³⁰ “I will gradually drive them out from before you, until you increase and inherit the land.

³¹ “And I will make your boundaries from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and you shall drive them out from before you.

³² “You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

³³ “Nor shall they dwell in the land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it shall surely be to your destruction.”