Exodus 23

1 Thou shalt not receive a vain report: thou shalt not agree with the unjust [man] to become an unjust witness.

You do not lift up a vain report; you do not put your hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

2 Thou shalt not associate with the multitude for evil; thou shalt not join thyself with a multitude to turn aside with the majority so as to shut out judgment.

You are not after many to [do] evil, nor do you testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause [others] to turn aside;

3 And thou shalt not spare a poor man in judgment.

and you do not honor a poor man in his strife.

4 And if thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt turn them back and restore them to him.

When you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you certainly turn it back to him;

5 And if thou see thine enemy's ass fallen under its burden, thou shalt not pass by it, but shalt help to raise it with him.

when you see the donkey of him who is hating you crouching under its burden, then you have ceased from leaving [it] to it—you certainly leave [it] with him.

6 Thou shalt not wrest the sentence of the poor in his judgment.

You do not turn aside the judgment of your poor in his strife;

7 Thou shalt abstain from every unjust thing: thou shalt not slay the innocent and just, and thou shalt not justify the wicked for gifts.

you keep far off from a false matter, and you do not slay an innocent and righteous man; for I do not justify a wicked man.

8 And thou shalt not receive gifts; for gifts blind the eyes of the seeing, and corrupt just words.

And you do not take a bribe, for the bribe binds the open-[eyed] and perverts the words of the righteous.

9 And ye shall not afflict a stranger, for ye know the heart of a stranger; for ye were yourselves strangers in the land of Egypt.

And you do not oppress a sojourner, since you have known the soul of the sojourner, for you have been sojourners in the land of Egypt.

10 Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the fruits of it.

And [for] six years you sow your land and have gathered its increase;

11 But in the seventh year thou shalt let it rest, and leave it, and the poor of thy nation shall feed; and the wild beasts of the field shall eat that which remains: thus shalt thou do to thy vineyard and to thine oliveyard.

and [in] the seventh you release it, and have left it, and the needy of your people have eaten, and the beast of the field eats their remainder; so you do to your vineyard [and] to your olive-yard.

12 Six days shalt thou do thy works, and on the seventh day there shall be rest, that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and that the son of thy maid-servant and the stranger may be refreshed.

Six days you do your work, and on the seventh day you rest, so that your ox and your donkey rest, and the son of your handmaid and the sojourner is refreshed;

13 Observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and ye shall make no mention of the name of other gods, neither shall they be heard out of your mouth.

and in all that which I have said to you—take heed; and you do not mention the name of other gods; it is not heard on your mouth.

14 Keep ye a feast to me three times in the year.

You keep a celebration to Me three times in a year:

15 Take heed to keep the feast of unleavened bread: seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread, as I charged thee at the season of the month of new [corn], for in it thou camest out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear before me empty.

you keep the Celebration of Unleavened Things (you eat unleavened things [for] seven days as I have commanded you, at the time appointed [in] the month of Abib; for in it you have come forth out of Egypt, and you do not appear [in] My presence empty);

16 And thou shalt keep the feast of the harvest of first-fruits of thy labours, whatsoever thou shalt have sown in thy field, and the feast of completion at the end of the year in the gathering in of thy fruits out of thy field.

and the Celebration of Harvest, the first-fruits of your works which you sow in the field; and the Celebration of the Ingathering in the outgoing of the year, in your gathering your works out of the field.

17 Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God.

Three times in a year all your males appear before [the] face of the Lord YHWH.

18 For when I shall have cast out the nations from before thee, and shall have widened thy borders, thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, neither must the fat of my feast abide till the morning.

You do not sacrifice the blood of My sacrifice on a fermented thing, and the fat of My festival does not remain until morning;

19 Thou shalt bring the first-offerings of the first-fruits of thy land into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a lamb in its mother's milk.

the beginning of the first-fruits of your ground you bring into the house of your God YHWH; you do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

20 And, behold, I send my angel before thy face, that he may keep thee in the way, that he may bring thee into the land which I have prepared for thee.

Behold, I am sending a Messenger before you to keep you in the way, and to bring you to the place which I have prepared;

21 Take heed to thyself and hearken to him, and disobey him not; for he will not give way to thee, for my name is on him.

be watchful because of His presence, and listen to His voice, do not rebel against Him, for He does not bear with your transgression, for My Name [is] in His heart;

22 If ye will indeed hear my voice, and if thou wilt do all the things I shall charge thee with, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations, for the whole earth is mine; and ye shall be to me a royal priesthood, and a holy nation: these words shall ye speak to the children of Israel, If ye shall indeed hear my voice, and do all the things I shall tell thee, I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries.

for if you listen diligently to His voice, and have done all that which I speak, then I have been at enmity with your enemies, and have distressed those distressing you.

23 For my angel shall go as thy leader, and shall bring thee to the Amorite, and Chettite, and Pherezite, and Chananite, and Gergesite, and Evite, and Jebusite, and I will destroy them.

For My Messenger goes before you, and has brought you to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and I have cut them off.

24 Thou shalt not worship their gods, nor serve them: thou shalt not do according to their works, but shalt utterly destroy them, and break to pieces their pillars.

You do not bow yourself to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their doings, but utterly devote them, and thoroughly break their standing pillars.

25 And thou shalt serve the Lord thy God, and I will bless thy bread and thy wine and thy water, and I will turn away sickness from you.

And you have served your God YHWH, and He has blessed your bread and your water, and I have turned aside sickness from your heart;

26 There shall not be on thy land one that is impotent or barren. I will surely fulfil the number of thy days.

there is not a miscarrying and barren one in your land; I fulfill the number of your days.

27 And I will send terror before thee, and I will strike with amazement all the nations to which thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies to flee.

I send My terror before you, and I have put to death all the people among whom you come, and I have given the neck of all your enemies to you.

28 And I will send hornets before thee, and thou shalt cast out the Amorites and the Evites, and the Chananites and the Chettites from thee.

And I have sent the hornet before you, and it has cast out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you;

29 I will not cast them out in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.

I do not cast them out from before you in one year, lest the land be a desolation, and the beast of the field has multiplied against you;

30 By little [and little] I will cast them out from before thee, until thou shalt be increased and inherit the earth.

I cast them out little [by] little from before you, until you are fruitful, and have inherited the land.

31 And I will set thy borders from the Red Sea, to the sea of the Phylistines, and from the wilderness to the great river Euphrates; and I will give into your hand those that dwell in the land, and will cast them out from thee.

And I have set your border from the Red Sea, even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you have cast them out from before you.

32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them and their gods.

You do not make a covenant with them and with their gods;

33 And they shall not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against me; for if thou shouldest serve their gods, these will be an offence to thee.

they do not dwell in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me when you serve their gods, when it becomes a snare to you.”