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📚“You shall not spread a false report 📖. Do not join hands with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness 📖. 2 📚You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in a lawsuit to pervert justice, following the majority. 3 📚And you shall not show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit.4 📚“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you must surely bring it back to him. 5 📚If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying under its burden, you must not leave it to him, you shall surely help him with it.
6 📚“You shall not pervert justice with your poor in his lawsuit. 7 📚Keep far from a false matter; and do not put the innocent and righteous to death; for I will not acquit the guilty 📖.
8 📚“And you must not take a bribe; for a bribe blinds the discerning, and perverts the words of the righteous.
9 📚“Also you shall not oppress a foreigner, for you know the heart of a foreigner, seeing you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
10 📚“You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its harvests. 11 📚But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie still, so that the poor among your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do the same way with your vineyard, and with your olive garden.
12 📚“You shall do your work in six days, and on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maid servant, and the foreigner, may be refreshed.
13 📚“And pay attention 📖 to everything I have said to you, and do not mention the name of another god 📖; do not let it be heard from your mouth.
Three annual festivals
14 📚“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.
15 📚“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. You shall eat bread made without yeast for seven days, as I commanded you, in the time appointed in the month Abib; for in that month you came out from Egypt. And no one is to appear before me empty-handed.
16 📚“And you must keep the Feast of Harvest 📖 with the firstfruits 📖 of your labours which you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labours from the field.
17 📚“Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.
23:17 Ex 34:23; Deut 16:16. This does not mean women and children were to stay at home. But because of the length and difficulty of the way they were not commanded to come as the men were.⚜
18 📚“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifices with bread made with yeast, and the fat of my sacrifices must not remain until morning.
19 📚“You shall bring the first of the firstfruits of your land into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
God’s angel to lead Israel
20 📚“See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21 📚Pay attention to him, and obey his voice. Do not rebel 📖 against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions; for my name 📖 is in him. 22 📚But if you shall indeed obey his voice, and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. 23 📚For my angel will go before you, and bring you to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will destroy them.
24 📚You must not bow down 📖 to their gods, or serve them, or do according to their works; but you must utterly demolish them, and smash 📖 their images. 25 📚And you shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless 📖 your bread, and your water. And I will take away sickness 📖 from among you. 26 📚None will have a miscarriage or be barren in your land. I will enable you to complete the number of your days.
27 📚“I will send my fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you will be going, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 📚And I will send hornets before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. 29 📚I will not drive them out before you in one year, so that the land will not become desolate, and the beasts of the field increase in number against you. 30 I will drive them out before you little by little, until you are increased in number, and inherit the land.
31 📚“And I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines 📖, and from the desert to the River 📖; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and you will drive them out before you. 32 📚You must not make any covenant 📖 with them, or with their gods. 33 📚They shall not dwell in your land, so that they may not cause you to sin against me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you”.