اَلْخُرُوجُ 23

١ 1 «لَا تَقْبَلْ خَبَرًا كَاذِبًا، وَلَا تَضَعْ يَدَكَ مَعَ ٱلْمُنَافِقِ لِتَكُونَ شَاهِدَ ظُلْمٍ.

“You must not spread stories that are lies. You must not help bad people by giving evidence that's malicious.

٢ 2 لَا تَتْبَعِ ٱلْكَثِيرِينَ إِلَى فِعْلِ ٱلشَّرِّ، وَلَا تُجِبْ فِي دَعْوَى مَائِلًا وَرَاءَ ٱلْكَثِيرِينَ لِلتَّحْرِيفِ.

Don't follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give evidence in a lawsuit, don't corrupt justice by siding with the majority.

٣ 3 وَلَا تُحَابِ مَعَ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ فِي دَعْوَاهُ.

Don't show favoritism to poor people in their legal cases either.

٤ 4 إِذَا صَادَفْتَ ثَوْرَ عَدُوِّكَ أَوْ حِمَارَهُ شَارِدًا، تَرُدُّهُ إِلَيْهِ.

If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey that has wandered off, take it back it to him.

٥ 5 إِذَا رَأَيْتَ حِمَارَ مُبْغِضِكَ وَاقِعًا تَحْتَ حِمْلِهِ وَعَدَلْتَ عَنْ حَلِّهِ، فَلَا بُدَّ أَنْ تَحُلَّ مَعَهُ.

If you see the donkey of someone who hates you that has fallen under its load, don't just leave it there. You must stop and help.

٦ 6 لَا تُحَرِّفْ حَقَّ فَقِيرِكَ فِي دَعْوَاهُ.

You must not prevent the poor from getting justice in their lawsuits.

٧ 7 اِبْتَعِدْ عَنْ كَلَامِ ٱلْكَذِبِ، وَلَا تَقْتُلِ ٱلْبَرِيءَ وَٱلْبَارَّ، لِأَنِّي لَا أُبَرِّرُ ٱلْمُذْنِبَ.

Don't have anything to do with making false accusations. Don't kill the innocent or those who do right, for I won't let the guilty go unpunished.

٨ 8 وَلَا تَأْخُذْ رَشْوَةً، لِأَنَّ ٱلرَّشْوَةَ تُعْمِي ٱلْمُبْصِرِينَ، وَتُعَوِّجُ كَلَامَ ٱلْأَبْرَارِ.

Don't accept bribes, for a bribe blinds those who can see, and undermines the evidence of the honest.

٩ 9 وَلَا تُضَايِقِ ٱلْغَرِيبَ فَإِنَّكُمْ عَارِفُونَ نَفْسَ ٱلْغَرِيبِ، لِأَنَّكُمْ كُنْتُمْ غُرَبَاءَ فِي أَرْضِ مِصْرَ.

Don't abuse foreigners living among you, since you know very well what it's like to be foreigners, for you were once foreigners in Egypt.

١٠ 10 «وَسِتَّ سِنِينَ تَزْرَعُ أَرْضَكَ وَتَجْمَعُ غَلَّتَهَا،

Six years you are to sow your land and harvest crops,

١١ 11 وَأَمَّا فِي ٱلسَّابِعَةِ فَتُرِيحُهَا وَتَتْرُكُهَا لِيَأْكُلَ فُقَرَاءُ شَعْبِكَ. وَفَضْلَتُهُمْ تَأْكُلُهَا وُحُوشُ ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ. كَذَلِكَ تَفْعَلُ بِكَرْمِكَ وَزَيْتُونِكَ.

but in the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it uncultivated, so that poor people may eat what grows naturally from the field and the wild animals can finish what's left. Follow the same procedure for your vineyards and olive groves.

١٢ 12 سِتَّةَ أَيَّامٍ تَعْمَلُ عَمَلَكَ. وَأَمَّا ٱلْيَوْمُ ٱلسَّابِعُ فَفِيهِ تَسْتَرِيحُ، لِكَيْ يَسْتَرِيحَ ثَوْرُكَ وَحِمَارُكَ، وَيَتَنَفَّسَ ٱبْنُ أَمَتِكَ وَٱلْغَرِيبُ.

You have six days to do your work, but on the seventh day you must stop working, so that your ox and your donkey can rest, and your slaves' families can catch their breath, as well as the foreigners living among you.

١٣ 13 وَكُلُّ مَا قُلْتُ لَكُمُ ٱحْتَفِظُوا بِهِ، وَلَا تَذْكُرُوا ٱسْمَ آلِهَةٍ أُخْرَى، وَلَا يُسْمَعْ مِنْ فَمِكَ.

Make sure to pay attention to everything I've told you. Don't think to call on the names of other gods—you must not even mention them.

١٤ 14 «ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ تُعَيِّدُ لِي فِي ٱلسَّنَةِ.

Three times every year you are to celebrate a feast dedicated to me.

١٥ 15 تَحْفَظُ عِيدَ ٱلْفَطِيرِ. تَأْكُلُ فَطِيرًا سَبْعَةَ أَيَّامٍ كَمَا أَمَرْتُكَ فِي وَقْتِ شَهْرِ أَبِيبَ، لِأَنَّهُ فِيهِ خَرَجْتَ مِنْ مِصْرَ. وَلَا يَظْهَرُوا أَمَامِي فَارِغِينَ.

You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread as I instructed you. You are to eat bread without yeast for seven days at the appropriate time in the month of Abib, because that was the month you left Egypt. No one can come before me without bringing an offering.

١٦ 16 وَعِيدَ ٱلْحَصَادِ أَبْكَارِ غَلَّاتِكَ ٱلَّتِي تَزْرَعُ فِي ٱلْحَقْلِ. وَعِيدَ ٱلْجَمْعِ فِي نِهَايَةِ ٱلسَّنَةِ عِنْدَمَا تَجْمَعُ غَلَّاتِكَ مِنَ ٱلْحَقْلِ.

You are also to observe the Festival of Harvest when you present the firstfruits of the produce from what you've sown in the fields. Lastly you are to observe the Festival of Gathering-In the Harvest at the end of the year, when you gather in the harvest of the rest of your crops from the field.

١٧ 17 ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ فِي ٱلسَّنَةِ يَظْهَرُ جَمِيعُ ذُكُورِكَ أَمَامَ ٱلسَّيِّدِ ٱلرَّبِّ.

Every Israelite male is to come before the Lord God at these three times every year.

١٨ 18 لَا تَذْبَحْ عَلَى خَمِيرٍ دَمَ ذَبِيحَتِي، وَلَا يَبِتْ شَحْمُ عِيدِي إِلَى ٱلْغَدِ.

You must not offer the blood of my sacrifices together with anything that contains yeast, and the fat from the offerings presented at my festival must not be left until morning.

١٩ 19 أَوَّلَ أَبْكَارِ أَرْضِكَ تُحْضِرُهُ إِلَى بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِكَ. لَا تَطْبُخْ جَدْيًا بِلَبَنِ أُمِّهِ.

Bring the best firstfruits of your crops to the house of the Lord your God. Don't cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

٢٠ 20 «هَا أَنَا مُرْسِلٌ مَلَاكًا أَمَامَ وَجْهِكَ لِيَحْفَظَكَ فِي ٱلطَّرِيقِ، وَلِيَجِيءَ بِكَ إِلَى ٱلْمَكَانِ ٱلَّذِي أَعْدَدْتُهُ.

Look, I'm sending an angel ahead of you to protect you on the way and to take you to the place I've prepared for you.

٢١ 21 اِحْتَرِزْ مِنْهُ وَٱسْمَعْ لِصَوْتِهِ وَلَا تَتَمَرَّدْ عَلَيْهِ، لِأَنَّهُ لَا يَصْفَحُ عَنْ ذُنُوبِكُمْ، لِأَنَّ ٱسْمِي فِيهِ.

Make sure you pay attention to him and do what he says. Don't oppose him, because he won't forgive rebellion, for he carries my authority.

٢٢ 22 وَلَكِنْ إِنْ سَمِعْتَ لِصَوْتِهِ وَفَعَلْتَ كُلَّ مَا أَتَكَلَّمُ بِهِ، أُعَادِي أَعْدَاءَكَ، وَأُضَايِقُ مُضَايِقِيكَ.

However, if you listen to him carefully, and do everything that I tell you, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and I will fight those who fight against you.

٢٣ 23 فَإِنَّ مَلَاكِي يَسِيرُ أَمَامَكَ وَيَجِيءُ بِكَ إِلَى ٱلْأَمُورِيِّينَ وَٱلْحِثِّيِّينَ وَٱلْفِرِزِّيِّينَ وَٱلْكَنْعَانِيِّينَ وَٱلْحِوِّيِّينَ وَٱلْيَبُوسِيِّينَ، فَأُبِيدُهُمْ.

For my angel will go ahead of you and take you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.

٢٤ 24 لَا تَسْجُدْ لِآلِهَتِهِمْ، وَلَا تَعْبُدْهَا، وَلَا تَعْمَلْ كَأَعْمَالِهِمْ، بَلْ تُبِيدُهُمْ وَتَكْسِرُ أَنْصَابَهُمْ.

You must not bow down to their gods or worship them or follow their pagan practices. No, you must demolish their idols and smash their sacred pillars into pieces.

٢٥ 25 وَتَعْبُدُونَ ٱلرَّبَّ إِلَهَكُمْ، فَيُبَارِكُ خُبْزَكَ وَمَاءَكَ، وَأُزِيلُ ٱلْمَرَضَ مِنْ بَيْنِكُمْ.

You are to worship the Lord your God, and he will bless your food and water. I will make sure none of you fall sick.

٢٦ 26 لَا تَكُونُ مُسْقِطَةٌ وَلَا عَاقِرٌ فِي أَرْضِكَ، وَأُكَمِّلُ عَدَدَ أَيَّامِكَ.

No woman will have a miscarriage or be without children. I will make sure you live long lives.

٢٧ 27 أُرْسِلُ هَيْبَتِي أَمَامَكَ، وَأُزْعِجُ جَمِيعَ ٱلشُّعُوبِ ٱلَّذِينَ تَأْتِي عَلَيْهِمْ، وَأُعْطِيكَ جَمِيعَ أَعْدَائِكَ مُدْبِرِينَ.

I will send terror about me ahead of you which will throw every nation you meet into panic. I will make all your enemies turn and run away.

٢٨ 28 وَأُرْسِلُ أَمَامَكَ ٱلزَّنَابِيرَ. فَتَطْرُدُ ٱلْحِوِّيِّينَ وَٱلْكَنْعَانِيِّينَ وَٱلْحِثِّيِّينَ مِنْ أَمَامِكَ.

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

٢٩ 29 لَا أَطْرُدُهُمْ مِنْ أَمَامِكَ فِي سَنَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ، لِئَلَّا تَصِيرَ ٱلْأَرْضُ خَرِبَةً، فَتَكْثُرَ عَلَيْكَ وُحُوشُ ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ.

I will not drive them out in just one year, because the land would become desolate and you would have to deal with increased numbers of wild animals.

٣٠ 30 قَلِيلًا قَلِيلًا أَطْرُدُهُمْ مِنْ أَمَامِكَ إِلَى أَنْ تُثْمِرَ وَتَمْلِكَ ٱلْأَرْضَ.

Bit by bit I will drive them out ahead of you, until there are enough of you to take possession of the land.

٣١ 31 وَأَجْعَلُ تُخُومَكَ مِنْ بَحْرِ سُوفٍ إِلَى بَحْرِ فِلِسْطِينَ، وَمِنَ ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ إِلَى ٱلنَّهْرِ. فَإِنِّي أَدْفَعُ إِلَى أَيْدِيكُمْ سُكَّانَ ٱلْأَرْضِ، فَتَطْرُدُهُمْ مِنْ أَمَامِكَ.

I will fix your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will hand the inhabitants of the land over to you, and you will drive them out.

٣٢ 32 لَا تَقْطَعْ مَعَهُمْ وَلَا مَعَ آلِهَتِهِمْ عَهْدًا.

You must not make any agreement with them or with their gods.

٣٣ 33 لَا يَسْكُنُوا فِي أَرْضِكَ لِئَلَّا يَجْعَلُوكَ تُخْطِئُ إِلَيَّ. إِذَا عَبَدْتَ آلِهَتَهُمْ فَإِنَّهُ يَكُونُ لَكَ فَخًّا».

They must not be allowed to stay in your land, otherwise they will lead you to sin against me. For if you worship their gods, they will definitely become a trap for you.”