Exodus 23
1 non suscipies vocem mendacii nec iunges manum tuam ut pro impio dicas falsum testimonium
Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
2 non sequeris turbam ad faciendum malum nec in iudicio plurimorum adquiesces sententiae ut a vero devies
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest [judgment]:
3 pauperis quoque non misereberis in negotio
neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.
4 si occurreris bovi inimici tui aut asino erranti reduc ad eum
If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
5 si videris asinum odientis te iacere sub onere non pertransibis sed sublevabis cum eo
If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
6 non declinabis in iudicio pauperis
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
7 mendacium fugies insontem et iustum non occides quia aversor impium
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
8 nec accipias munera quae excaecant etiam prudentes et subvertunt verba iustorum
And thou shalt take no gift: for a gift blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
9 peregrino molestus non eris scitis enim advenarum animas quia et ipsi peregrini fuistis in terra Aegypti
And a stranger shalt thou not oppress: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
10 sex annis seminabis terram tuam et congregabis fruges eius
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof:
11 anno autem septimo dimittes eam et requiescere facies ut comedant pauperes populi tui et quicquid reliqui fuerit edant bestiae agri ita facies in vinea et in oliveto tuo
but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard.
12 sex diebus operaberis septima die cessabis ut requiescat bos et asinus tuus et refrigeretur filius ancillae tuae et advena
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy 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 take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
14 tribus vicibus per singulos annos mihi festa celebrabitis
Three times thou shalt 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
The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it thou camest out from Egypt); and none shall appear before me empty:
16 et sollemnitatem messis primitivorum operis tui quaecumque serueris in agro sollemnitatem quoque in exitu anni quando congregaveris omnes fruges tuas de agro
and the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou sowest in the field: and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field.
17 ter in anno apparebit omne masculinum tuum coram Domino Deo
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
18 non immolabis super fermento sanguinem victimae meae nec remanebit adeps sollemnitatis meae usque mane
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.
19 primitias frugum terrae tuae deferes in domum Domini Dei tui nec coques hedum in lacte matris suae
The first of the firstfruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother’s milk.
20 ecce ego mittam angelum meum qui praecedat te et custodiat in via et introducat ad locum quem paravi
Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
21 observa eum et audi vocem eius nec contemnendum putes quia non dimittet cum peccaveritis et est nomen meum in illo
Take ye heed of him, and hearken unto his voice; provoke him not: for he will not pardon your transgression; for my name is in him.
22 quod si audieris vocem eius et feceris omnia quae loquor inimicus ero inimicis tuis et adfligam adfligentes te
But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
23 praecedetque te angelus meus et introducet te ad Amorreum et Hettheum et Ferezeum Chananeumque et Eveum et Iebuseum quos ego contribo
For mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: 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
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.
25 servietisque Domino Deo vestro ut benedicam panibus tuis et aquis et auferam infirmitatem de medio tui
And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
26 non erit infecunda nec sterilis in terra tua numerum dierum tuorum implebo
There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy 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 terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
28 emittens crabrones prius qui fugabunt Eveum et Chananeum et Hettheum antequam introeas
And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
29 non eiciam eos a facie tua anno uno ne terra in solitudinem redigatur et crescant contra te bestiae
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
30 paulatim expellam eos de conspectu tuo donec augearis et possideas terram
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
31 ponam autem terminos tuos a mari Rubro usque ad mare Palestinorum et a deserto usque ad Fluvium tradam manibus vestris habitatores terrae et eiciam eos de conspectu vestro
And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
32 non inibis cum eis foedus nec cum diis eorum
Thou shalt 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 certo erit in scandalum
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
