Justice and the sabbath year
You won't spread a false report. Don't join hands with the wicked to be a false testimony. You won't follow a crowd to do wrong. And you won't speak in a case so as to turn aside after a great deal of others and twist judgment. You won't take the side of a poor man in his case either. If you meet the ox of the one against you or his donkey wandering off, you'll definitely bring it back to him. If you see the donkey of the one who hates you lying under its load, and you'd hold back from helping him — you'll definitely help him with it. You won't twist the judgment of your poor in his case. Keep yourself far from a false matter. And don't kill the innocent and righteous, because I won't clear the wicked. You won't take a bribe, because a bribe blinds the wise and twists the words of the righteous. You won't crush a foreigner. Because you know the heart of a foreigner, seeing you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. And six years you'll sow your land and gather in its harvest. But the seventh year you'll let it rest and lie still, so the poor of your people can eat. And what they leave, the animals of the field will eat. You'll do the same with your vineyard and with your olive grove. Six days you'll do your work, and on the seventh day you'll rest — so your ox and your donkey can rest, and the son of your servant woman and the foreigner can get their breath back. And in everything I've said to you, be careful. And don't mention the name of other gods. Don't let it be heard out of your mouth.
You won't spread a false report. Don't join hands with the wicked to be a false witness. You won't follow a crowd to do wrong. And you won't speak in a case so as to turn aside after plenty of others and twist judgment. And you won't take the side of a poor man in his case either. If you meet the ox of the one against you or his donkey wandering off, you'll definitely bring it back to him. If you see the donkey of the one who hates you lying under its load, and you'd hold back from helping him — you'll definitely help him with it. You won't twist the judgment of your poor in his case. Keep yourself far from a false matter. And don't kill the innocent and righteous, because I won't clear the wicked. And you won't take a bribe, because a bribe blinds the wise and twists the words of the righteous. And you won't crush a stranger. Because you know the heart of a stranger, seeing you were strangers in the land of Egypt. And six years you'll sow your land and gather in its harvest. But the seventh year you'll let it rest and lie still, so the poor of your people can eat. And what they leave, the animals of the field will eat. You'll do the same with your vineyard and with your olive grove. Six days you'll do your work, and on the seventh day you'll rest — so your ox and your donkey can rest, and the son of your servant woman and the stranger can get their breath back. And in everything I've said to you, be careful. And don't mention the name of other gods. Don't let it be heard out of your mouth.
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 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. Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard. Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
You won't spread a false report. Don't join hands with the wicked to be a false testimony.
You won't spread a false report. Don't join hands with the wicked to be a false witness.
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
You won't follow a crowd to do wrong. And you won't speak in a case so as to turn aside after a great deal of others and twist judgment.
You won't follow a crowd to do wrong. And you won't speak in a case so as to turn aside after plenty of others and twist judgment.
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
You won't take the side of a poor man in his case either.
And you won't take the side of a poor man in his case either.
Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
If you meet the ox of the one against you or his donkey wandering off, you'll definitely bring it back to him.
If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
If you see the donkey of the one who hates you lying under its load, and you'd hold back from helping him — you'll definitely help him with it.
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.
You won't twist the judgment of your poor in his case.
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
Keep yourself far from a false matter. And don't kill the innocent and righteous, because I won't clear the wicked.
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
You won't take a bribe, because a bribe blinds the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
And you won't take a bribe, because a bribe blinds the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
You won't crush a foreigner. Because you know the heart of a foreigner, seeing you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
And you won't crush a stranger. Because you know the heart of a stranger, seeing you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
And six years you'll sow your land and gather in its harvest.
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
But the seventh year you'll let it rest and lie still, so the poor of your people can eat. And what they leave, the animals of the field will eat. You'll do the same with your vineyard and with your olive grove.
But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
Six days you'll do your work, and on the seventh day you'll rest — so your ox and your donkey can rest, and the son of your servant woman and the foreigner can get their breath back.
Six days you'll do your work, and on the seventh day you'll rest — so your ox and your donkey can rest, and the son of your servant woman and the stranger can get their breath back.
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
And in everything I've said to you, be careful. And don't mention the name of other gods. Don't let it be heard out of your mouth.
And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
The three feasts
Three times a year you'll keep a feast to me. 'Keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Eat unleavened bread for seven days, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month Abib, because that is when you came out of Egypt. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.' The Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your work that you've sown in the field. And the Feast of Ingathering, at the end of the year, when you've gathered in your work out of the field. Three times a year all your males will show themselves before the Lord God. You won't offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. And the fat of my sacrifice won't stay till the morning. You'll bring the first of the firstfruits of your land into the house of the Lord your God. You won't boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Three times a year you'll keep a feast to me. You'll keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. You'll eat unleavened bread seven days, the way I ordered you, at the set time of the month Abib. Because you came out of Egypt in it. And nobody will show himself in front of me empty-handed. And the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your work that you've sown in the field. And the Feast of Ingathering, at the end of the year, when you've gathered in your work out of the field. Three times a year all your males will show themselves in front of the Lord God. You won't offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. And the fat of my sacrifice won't stay till the morning. You'll bring the first of the firstfruits of your land into the house of the Lord your God. You won't boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
Three times a year you'll keep a feast to me.
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
'Keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Eat unleavened bread for seven days, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month Abib, because that is when you came out of Egypt. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.'
You'll keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. You'll eat unleavened bread seven days, the way I ordered you, at the set time of the month Abib. Because you came out of Egypt in it. And nobody will show himself in front of me empty-handed.
Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
The Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your work that you've sown in the field. And the Feast of Ingathering, at the end of the year, when you've gathered in your work out of the field.
And the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your work that you've sown in the field. And the Feast of Ingathering, at the end of the year, when you've gathered in your work out of the field.
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Three times a year all your males will show themselves before the Lord God.
Three times a year all your males will show themselves in front of the Lord God.
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.
You won't offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. And the fat of my sacrifice won't stay till the morning.
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
You'll bring the first of the firstfruits of your land into the house of the Lord your God. You won't boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
The angel in front of you
'Look, I am sending an Angel ahead of you to guard you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared.' 'Pay attention to him and obey his voice. Don't provoke him, because he won't pardon your wrongdoings; my name is in him.' But if you truly obey his voice and do everything I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and oppose those who oppose you. Because my angel will go before you and bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites. And I'll cut them off. You won't bow down to their gods or serve them or do what they do. But you'll completely overthrow them and break their pillars right down. You'll serve the Lord your God, and he'll bless your bread and your water. And I'll take sickness away from among you. Nothing will lose its young or be barren in your land. I'll fill up the number of your days. I'll send my fear before you and destroy all the people you come to, and I'll make all your enemies turn their backs to you. I'll send hornets before you, that'll drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite and the Hittite from before you. I won't drive them out from before you in one year, or the land would become a waste and the animals of the field grow too many for you. Little by little I'll drive them out from before you, till you've grown and inherit the land. I'll set your borders from the Red Sea as far as the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River. Because I'll hand over the people of the land into your hand, and you'll drive them out before you. You won't make any covenant with them or with their gods. They won't live in your land, or they'll make you sin against me. Because if you serve their gods, it'll definitely be a trap to you.
Look — I send an angel in front of you to keep you on the way and to bring you into the place I've got ready. Watch yourself in front of him and listen to his voice. Don't make him angry, because he won't forgive what you've stepped over. Because my name is in him. But if you really listen to his voice and do everything I say, then I'll be an enemy to the ones against you, and I'll be against the ones who trouble you. Because my angel will go in front of you and bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites. And I'll cut them off. You won't bow down to their gods or serve them or do what they do. But you'll completely overthrow them and break their pillars right down. And you'll serve the Lord your God, and he'll bless your bread and your water. And I'll take sickness away from among you. Nothing will lose its young or be barren in your land. I'll fill up the number of your days. I'll send my fear in front of you and wreck all the people you come to, and I'll make all the ones against you turn their backs to you. And I'll send hornets in front of you, that'll drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite and the Hittite from in front of you. I won't drive them out from in front of you in one year, or the land would turn into a waste and the animals of the field grow too many for you. Little by little I'll drive them out from in front of you, till you've grown and inherit the land. And I'll set your borders from the Red Sea right to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River. Because I'll hand over the people of the land into your hand, and you'll drive them out in front of you. You won't make any covenant with them or with their gods. They won't live in your land, or they'll make you sin against me. Because if you serve their gods, it'll definitely be a trap to you.
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. 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. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. 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. By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 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.
'Look, I am sending an Angel ahead of you to guard you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared.'
Look — I send an angel in front of you to keep you on the way and to bring you into the place I've got ready.
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
'Pay attention to him and obey his voice. Don't provoke him, because he won't pardon your wrongdoings; my name is in him.'
Watch yourself in front of him and listen to his voice. Don't make him angry, because he won't forgive what you've stepped over. Because my name is in him.
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
But if you truly obey his voice and do everything I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and oppose those who oppose you.
But if you really listen to his voice and do everything I say, then I'll be an enemy to the ones against you, and I'll be against the ones who trouble you.
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
Because my angel will go before you and bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites. And I'll cut them off.
Because my angel will go in front of you and bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites. And I'll cut them off.
For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
You won't bow down to their gods or serve them or do what they do. But you'll completely overthrow them and break their pillars right down.
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
You'll serve the Lord your God, and he'll bless your bread and your water. And I'll take sickness away from among you.
And you'll serve the Lord your God, and he'll bless your bread and your water. And I'll take sickness away from among you.
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.
Nothing will lose its young or be barren in your land. I'll fill up the number of your days.
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
I'll send my fear before you and destroy all the people you come to, and I'll make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
I'll send my fear in front of you and wreck all the people you come to, and I'll make all the ones against you turn their backs to you.
I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
I'll send hornets before you, that'll drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite and the Hittite from before you.
And I'll send hornets in front of you, that'll drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite and the Hittite from in front of you.
And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
I won't drive them out from before you in one year, or the land would become a waste and the animals of the field grow too many for you.
I won't drive them out from in front of you in one year, or the land would turn into a waste and the animals of the field grow too many for you.
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.
Little by little I'll drive them out from before you, till you've grown and inherit the land.
Little by little I'll drive them out from in front of you, till you've grown and inherit the land.
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
I'll set your borders from the Red Sea as far as the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River. Because I'll hand over the people of the land into your hand, and you'll drive them out before you.
And I'll set your borders from the Red Sea right to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River. Because I'll hand over the people of the land into your hand, and you'll drive them out in front of you.
And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
You won't make any covenant with them or with their gods.
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
They won't live in your land, or they'll make you sin against me. Because if you serve their gods, it'll definitely be a trap to you.
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.