Exodus 23
1 Non suscipies vocem mendacii: nec iunges manum tuam ut pro impio dicas falsum testimonium.
You shall not raise a false report: put not your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
2 Non sequeris turbam ad faciendum malum: nec in iudicio, plurimorum acquiesces sententiae, ut a vero devies.
You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline after many to shift judgment:
3 Pauperis quoque non misereberis in iudicio.
Neither shall you countenance a poor man in his cause.
4 Si occurreris bovi inimici tui, aut asino erranti, reduc ad eum.
If you meet your enemy's ox or his ass going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
5 Si videris asinum odientis te iacere sub onere, non pertransibis, sed sublevabis cum eo.
If you see the ass of him that hates you lying under his burden, and would forbear to help him, you shall surely help with him.
6 Non declinabis in iudicium pauperis.
You shall not shift the judgment of your poor in his cause.
7 Mendacium fugies. Insontem et iustum non occides: quia aversor impium.
Keep you far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay you not: for I will not justify the wicked.
8 Nec accipies munera, quae etiam excaecant prudentes, et subvertunt verba iustorum.
And you shall take no gift: for the gift blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
9 Peregrino molestus non eris. scitis enim advenarum animas: quia et ipsi peregrini fuistis in Terra Aegypti.
Also you shall not oppress a stranger: for all of you know the heart of a stranger, seeing all of you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
10 Sex annis seminabis terram tuam, et congregabis fruges eius.
And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in the fruits thereof:
11 Anno autem septimo dimittes eam, et requiescere facies, ut comedant pauperes populi tui: et quidquid reliquum fuerit, edant bestiae agri: ita facies in vinea et in oliveto tuo.
But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie still; that the poor of your people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard, and with your olive yard.
12 Sex diebus operaberis: septimo die cessabis, ut requiescat bos et asinus tuus: et refrigeretur filius ancillae tuae, et advena.
Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest: that your ox and your ass may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
13 Omnia quae dixi vobis, custodite. Et per nomen externorum deorum non iurabitis, neque audietur ex ore vestro.
And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth.
14 Tribus vicibus per singulos annos mihi festa celebrabitis.
Three times you shall keep a feast unto me in the year.
15 Sollemnitatem azymorum custodies. Septem diebus comedes azyma, sicut praecepi tibi, tempore mensis novorum, quando egressus es de Aegypto: non apparebis in conspectu meo vacuus.
You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread: (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it you came out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty: )
16 Et sollemnitatem messis primitivorum operis tui, quaecumque seminaveris in agro. sollemnitatem quoque in exitu anni, quando congregaveris omnes fruges tuas de agro.
And the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of your labours, which you have sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labours out of the field.
17 Ter in anno apparebit omne masculinum tuum coram Domino Deo tuo.
Three items in the year all your males shall appear before the LORD God.
18 Non immolabis super fermento sanguinem victimae tuae, nec remanebit adeps sollemnitatis meae usque mane.
You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
19 Primitias frugum terrae tuae deferes in domum Domini Dei tui. Non coques hoedum in lacte matris suae.
The first of the first-fruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
20 Ecce ego mittam Angelum meum, qui praecedat te, et custodiat in via, et introducat in locum quem praeparavi.
Behold, I send an Angel before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
21 Observa eum, et audi vocem eius, nec contemnendum putes: quia non dimittet cum peccaveris, et est nomen meum in illo.
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
22 Quod si audieris vocem eius, et feceris omnia quae loquor, inimicus ero inimicis tuis, et affligam affligentes te.
But if you shall indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto your enemies, and an adversary unto your adversaries.
23 Praecedetque te Angelus meus, et introducet te ad Amorrhaeum, et Hethaeum, et Pherezaeum, Chananaeumque, et Hevaeum, et Iebusaeum, quos ego conteram.
For mine Angel shall go before you, and bring you in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
24 Non adorabis deos eorum, nec coles eos: non facies opera eorum, sed destrues eos, et confringes statuas eorum.
You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but you shall utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
25 Servietisque Domino Deo vestro, ut benedicam panibus tuis et aquis, et auferam infirmitatem de medio tui.
And all of you shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless your bread, and your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you.
26 Non erit infoecunda, nec sterilis in terra tua: numerum dierum tuorum implebo.
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in your land: the number of your days I will fulfill.
27 Terrorem meum mittam in praecursum tuum, et occidam omnem populum, ad quem ingredieris: cunctorumque inimicorum tuorum coram te terga vertam:
I will send my fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you shall come, and I will make all of your enemies turn their backs unto you.
28 emittens crabrones prius, qui fugabunt Hevaeum, et Chananaeum, et Hethaeum, antequam introeas.
And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
29 Non eiiciam eos a facie tua anno uno: ne terra in solitudinem redigatur, et crescant contra te bestiae.
I will not drive them out from before you in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against you.
30 Paulatim expellam eos de conspectu tuo, donec augearis, et possideas Terram.
By little and little I will drive them out from before you, until you be increased, and inherit the land.
31 Ponam autem terminos tuos a Mari rubro usque ad Mare Palaestinorum, et a deserto usque ad fluvium: tradam in manibus vestris habitatores Terrae, et eiiciam eos de conspectu vestro.
And I will set your bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and you shall drive them out before you.
32 Non inibis cum eis foedus, nec cum diis eorum.
You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33 Non habitent in terra tua, ne forte peccare te faciant in me, si servieris diis eorum: quod tibi certe erit in scandalum.
They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me: for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto you.
