1 "Do not spread a false rumor. Do not lend your hand to a wicked man by being a lying witness.
2 Do not go along with the majority in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a case, do not lean toward the majority and so twist justice.
3 And do not favor a poor man in his case.
4 If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to take it back to him.
5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you collapsed under its load, do not walk away and leave it to him; you must help him with it and set it free.
6 Do not deny justice to the poor among you in their cases.
7 Stay far away from a false charge, and do not put the innocent and the righteous to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.
8 Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see clearly and twists the words of the righteous.
9 Do not oppress a sojourner. You yourselves know how a sojourner feels, because you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
10 For six years you are to sow your land and gather in its produce,
11 but in the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it unplowed, so that the poor among your people may eat from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
12 For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you are to stop, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the sojourner may catch their breath.
13 Take care to do everything I have told you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.
14 Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
15 Keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the set time in the month of Abib, because in that month you came out of Egypt. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
16 Keep also the Feast of Harvest, with the firstfruits of the crops you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the close of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
17 Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.
18 Do not offer the blood of my sacrifice together with anything containing leaven, and do not let the fat of my festival offering remain until morning.
19 Bring the very first of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
20 I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
21 Be attentive to him and listen to his voice. Do not defy him, for he will not forgive your rebellion, because my name is in him.
22 But if you truly listen to his voice and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and an opponent to those who oppose you.
23 For my angel will go ahead of you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.
24 Do not bow down to their gods or serve them, and do not follow their practices. Instead, tear them down completely and smash their sacred pillars to pieces.
25 Serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water. I will remove sickness from among you.
26 No one in your land will miscarry or be barren. I will give you the full number of your days.
27 I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every people you come against. I will make all your enemies turn and run from you.
28 I will send the hornet ahead of you, and it will drive the Hivites, the Canaanites and the Hittites out of your way.
29 I will not drive them out from before you in a single year, or the land would become a wasteland and the wild animals would become too many for you.
30 I will drive them out from before you a little at a time, until you have grown numerous enough to take possession of the land.
31 I will fix your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River. I will hand the inhabitants of the land over to you, and you will drive them out before you.
32 Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods.
33 They are not to live in your land, or they will cause you to sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will certainly become a snare to you."