Exodus 23

1 Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.

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

2 Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

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

3 But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.

٣ وَلَا تُحَابِ مَعَ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ فِي دَعْوَاهُ.

4 If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him.

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

5 If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire.

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

6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

٦ لَا تُحَرِّفْ حَقَّ فَقِيرِكَ فِي دَعْوَاهُ.

7 Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.

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

8 Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.

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

9 Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.

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

10 For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;

١٠ «وَسِتَّ سِنِينَ تَزْرَعُ أَرْضَكَ وَتَجْمَعُ غَلَّتَهَا،

11 But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.

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

12 For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.

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

13 Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.

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

14 Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me.

١٤ «ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ تُعَيِّدُ لِي فِي ٱلسَّنَةِ.

15 You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your bread be without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt); and let no one come before me without an offering:

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

16 And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields.

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

17 Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God.

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

18 Do not give the blood of my offering with leavened bread; and do not let the fat of my feast be kept all night till the morning.

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

19 The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

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

20 See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you.

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

21 Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him.

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

22 But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you.

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

23 And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut off by my hand.

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

24 Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

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

25 And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you.

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

26 All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.

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

27 I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you.

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

28 I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face.

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

29 I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you.

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

30 Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land.

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

31 I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.

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

32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

٣٢ لَا تَقْطَعْ مَعَهُمْ وَلَا مَعَ آلِهَتِهِمْ عَهْدًا.

33 Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

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