Exodus 23

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

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

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

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

4 If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey that has wandered off, take it back it 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 donkey of someone who hates you that has fallen under its load, don't just leave it there. You must stop and help.

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

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

7 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.

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

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 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.

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

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

11 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

15 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.

[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 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.

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

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

18 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.

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 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.

[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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

27 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.

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 ahead of you to drive out before you the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites.

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 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.

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

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

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

33 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.”

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.