Exodus 23

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

Not you must bear a report of falsehood may not you put hand your with a wicked [person] to be a witness of injustice.

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

Not you must be after many [people] to wicked deeds and not you must testify on a case at law by turning aside after many [people] to thrust aside.

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.

And a poor [person] not you must show partiality in case at law his.

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.

If you will meet [the] ox of enemy your or donkey his wandering off certainly you will return it to him.

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.

If you will see [the] donkey of [one who] hates you lying down under load its and you will refrain from leaving it certainly you will let [it] loose with him.

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

Not you must turn aside [the] justice of needy [person] your in case at law his.

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.

From a word of falsehood you will be distant and an innocent [person] and a righteous [person] may not you kill for not I will declare righteous a wicked [person].

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.

And a bribe not you must take for bribe it makes blind clear-sighted [people] so it may pervert [the] words of righteous [people].

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.

And a sojourner not you must oppress and you you have known [the] life of the sojourner for sojourners you were in [the] land of Egypt.

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

And six years you will sow land your and you will gather produce its.

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.

And the seventh [year] you will let rest it and you will leave fallow it and they will eat [the] needy [people] of people your and excess their it will eat [the] animal[s] of the field thus you will do to vineyard your to olive grove your.

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.

Six days you will do work your and on the day seventh you will rest so that it may rest ox your and donkey your so he may refresh himself [the] child of female slave your and the sojourner.

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.

And to all that I have said to you you will take heed and [the] name of gods other not you will bring to remembrance not it will be heard on mouth your.

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

Three feet you will celebrate a festival to me in the year.

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:

[the] festival of The unleavened bread you will keep seven days you will eat unleavened bread just as I commanded you to [the] appointed time of [the] month of Abib for in it you came out from Egypt and not they will present themselves face my empty.

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.

And [the] festival of the harvest [the] first-fruits of work your which you will sow in the field and [the] festival of the ingathering when goes out the year when gathering you work your from the field.

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

Three times in the year he will present himself every male your to [the] presence of the lord - Yahweh.

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.

Not you must sacrifice with leaven [the] blood of sacrifice my and not it will remain overnight [the] fat of festival sacrifice my until morning.

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.

[the] beginning of [the] first-fruits of Ground your you will bring [the] house of Yahweh God your not you must boil a kid in [the] milk of mother its.

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.

Here! I [am] about to send an angel before you to guard you on the journey and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

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.

Take care from before him and listen to voice his may not you cause bitterness in him for not he will forgive to transgression your for name my [is] within him.

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.

That except carefully you will listen to voice his and you will do all that I will say and I will be an enemy to enemies your and I will be a foe to opposers your.

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.

For he will go angel my before you and he will bring you to the Amorite[s] and the Hittite[s] and the Perizzite[s] and the Canaanite[s] the Hivite[s] and the Jebusite[s] and I will annihilate it.

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.

Not you must bow down to gods their and not you must be enticed to serve them and not you must make like works their for completely you will tear down them and totally you will shatter into pieces sacred pillars their.

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.

And you will serve Yahweh God your and he will bless food your and water your and I will remove sickness from midst your.

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.

Not anyone will be miscarrying and barren in land your [the] number of days your I will complete.

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.

Terror my I will send before you and I will confuse every people which you will go among them and I will give all enemies your to you neck.

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

And I will send the hornet before you and it will drive out the Hivite[s] the Canaanite[s] and the Hittite[s] from to before you.

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.

Not I will drive out it from before you in a year one lest it should become the land a waste and it will become many on you [the] animal[s] of the field.

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.

Little little I will drive out it from before you until that you will be fruitful and you will possess the land.

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.

And I will fix border your from [the] sea of reed[s] and to [the] sea of [the] Philistines and from [the] wilderness to the River for - I will give in hand your [the] inhabitants of the land and you will drive out them from before you.

32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

Not you must make to them and to gods their a covenant.

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.

Not they will dwell in land your lest they should cause to sin you to me for you will serve gods their for it will become for you a snare.