Exodus 23

1 Non suscipies vocem mendacii: nec iunges manum tuam ut pro impio dicas falsum testimonium.

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

2 Non sequeris turbam ad faciendum malum: nec in iudicio, plurimorum acquiesces sententiae, ut a vero devies.

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 Pauperis quoque non misereberis in iudicio.

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

4 Si occurreris bovi inimici tui, aut asino erranti, reduc ad eum.

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

5 Si videris asinum odientis te iacere sub onere, non pertransibis, sed sublevabis cum eo.

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 Non declinabis in iudicium pauperis.

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

7 Mendacium fugies. Insontem et iustum non occides: quia aversor impium.

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 Nec accipies munera, quae etiam excaecant prudentes, et subvertunt verba iustorum.

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

9 Peregrino molestus non eris. scitis enim advenarum animas: quia et ipsi peregrini fuistis in Terra Aegypti.

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 Sex annis seminabis terram tuam, et congregabis fruges eius.

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

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.

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 Sex diebus operaberis: septimo die cessabis, ut requiescat bos et asinus tuus: et refrigeretur filius ancillae tuae, et advena.

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 Omnia quae dixi vobis, custodite. Et per nomen externorum deorum non iurabitis, neque audietur ex ore vestro.

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 Tribus vicibus per singulos annos mihi festa celebrabitis.

You keep a celebration to Me three times in a 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 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 Et sollemnitatem messis primitivorum operis tui, quaecumque seminaveris in agro. sollemnitatem quoque in exitu anni, quando congregaveris omnes fruges tuas de agro.

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 Ter in anno apparebit omne masculinum tuum coram Domino Deo tuo.

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

18 Non immolabis super fermento sanguinem victimae tuae, nec remanebit adeps sollemnitatis meae usque mane.

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 Primitias frugum terrae tuae deferes in domum Domini Dei tui. Non coques hoedum in lacte matris suae.

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 Ecce ego mittam Angelum meum, qui praecedat te, et custodiat in via, et introducat in locum quem praeparavi.

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 Observa eum, et audi vocem eius, nec contemnendum putes: quia non dimittet cum peccaveris, et est nomen meum in illo.

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 Quod si audieris vocem eius, et feceris omnia quae loquor, inimicus ero inimicis tuis, et affligam affligentes te.

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 Praecedetque te Angelus meus, et introducet te ad Amorrhaeum, et Hethaeum, et Pherezaeum, Chananaeumque, et Hevaeum, et Iebusaeum, quos ego conteram.

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 Non adorabis deos eorum, nec coles eos: non facies opera eorum, sed destrues eos, et confringes statuas eorum.

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 Servietisque Domino Deo vestro, ut benedicam panibus tuis et aquis, et auferam infirmitatem de medio tui.

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 Non erit infoecunda, nec sterilis in terra tua: numerum dierum tuorum implebo.

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

27 Terrorem meum mittam in praecursum tuum, et occidam omnem populum, ad quem ingredieris: cunctorumque inimicorum tuorum coram te terga vertam:

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 emittens crabrones prius, qui fugabunt Hevaeum, et Chananaeum, et Hethaeum, antequam introeas.

And I have sent the hornet before you, and it has cast 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 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 Paulatim expellam eos de conspectu tuo, donec augearis, et possideas Terram.

I cast them out little [by] little from before you, until you are fruitful, and have inherited 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 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 Non inibis cum eis foedus, nec cum diis eorum.

You do not make a covenant with them and 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 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.”