Exodus 23 You shall not carry a futile report; do not set your hand with the wicked to become a malicious witness.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ You shall not carry a futile report; do not set your hand with the wicked to become a malicious witness. ² You shall not come after the many to do evil, and you shall not respond in a contention to turn aside after the many, to turn aside judgment. ³ Neither shall you honor the poor in his contention. ⁴ In case you come upon the bull of your enemy or his donkey going astray you shall return, yea return it to him. ⁵ In case you see the donkey of one hating you reclining under its load, then you will halt from forsaking him. You shall set free, yea set it free with him. ⁶ You shall not turn aside the judgment of your needy in his contention. ⁷ From a false matter you shall be far; and the innocent and the righteous one you must not kill, for I shall not justify the wicked one. ⁸ You shall not take a bribe, for the bribe is blinding the unclosed eyes and is subverting the words of the righteous. ⁹ You shall not oppress a sojourner, for you know the soul of the sojourner, for you came to be sojourners in the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ Six years shall you sow your land, and you will gather its yield; " ¹¹ but in the seventh you shall release it and abandon it, that the needy of your people may eat, and the field animal shall eat their leavings. So shall you do to your vineyard and to your olive trees. ¹² Six days shall you do your tasks, and on the seventh day you shall cease, that your bull and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maidservant and the sojourner be refreshed. ¹³ You shall beware in all that I say to you. And the name of other elohim you shall not mention; nor let it be heard coming out of your mouth. ¹⁴ Three times shall you celebrate to Me in the year: ¹⁵ you shall observe the celebration of unleavened cakes; seven days shall you eat unleavened cakes, just as I instructed you, at the appointed time in the month Aviv, for in it you went forth from Egypt, and none shall appear before Me empty-handed. ¹⁶ also observe the celebration of the harvest of the firstfruits of your yields from what you are sowing in the field: and observe the celebration of ingathering at the going forth of the year, when you gather your yields from the field. ¹⁷ Three times in the year every male of you shall appear before the Lord Yahweh. ¹⁸ You shall not sacrifice the blood of My sacrifice with what is leavened, nor shall the fat of My celebration lodge until the morning. ¹⁹ You shall bring the first of the firstfruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your Elohim. You shall not cook a kid in the milk of its mother. ²⁰ Behold, I shall be sending a messenger before you to keep you in the way and to bring you to the place which I have prepared. ²¹ Guard yourself in view of him and hear his voice. Do not embitter him, for he shall not bear with your transgression, for My name is within him. ²² In case you should hearken, yea hearken to his voice and do all that I am speaking, then I will be Enemy of your enemies and will be Foe of your foes. ²³ For My messenger shall go before you and will bring you to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Gergashite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, and I will suppress them. ²⁴ You shall not bow yourself down to their elohim nor be made to serve them, nor shall you do according to their deeds, for you shall demolish, yea demolish them and break down, yea break down their monuments. ²⁵ You shall serve Yahweh your Elohim, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away illness from among you. ²⁶ None shall come to be miscarrying or barren in your land. I shall make the number of your days full. ²⁷ I shall send the dread of Me before you, I will discomfit all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn the nape of their necks to you. ²⁸ I will send the hornet before you, and it will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite and the Hittite from before you. ²⁹ I shall not drive them out from before you in one year lest the land should become desolate, and the field animal be many against you. ³⁰ Little by little shall I drive them out from before you until you are fruitful and you are allotted the land. ³¹ And I will set your boundary from the Sea of Weeds unto the sea of the Philistines and from the wilderness unto the Stream, for I shall give into your hand the dwellers of the land, and you will drive them out from your presence. ³² You shall not contract a covenant with them or with their elohim. ³³ They shall not dwell in your land lest they should make you sin against Me so that you serve their elohim, and that it should come to be a trap for you.