1 “AEx 20:16; Lev 19:11f; Deut 5:20; Ps 101:5; Prov 10:18You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a BDeut 19:16-21; Ps 35:11; Prov 19:5; Acts 6:11malicious witness. 2  “You shall not follow 1Lit many menthe masses in doing evil, nor shall you 2Or answertestify in a dispute so as to turn aside after 1Lit many mena multitude in order to ADeut 16:19; 24:17pervert justice; 3 AEx 23:6; Lev 19:15; Deut 1:17; 16:19nor shall you 1Lit honorbe partial to a poor man in his dispute.

4 “ADeut 22:1-4If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him. 5  “ADeut 22:4If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him.

6 “AEx 23:2, 3; Lev 19:15You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute. 7  “AEx 20:16; Ps 119:29; Eph 4:25Keep far from a false charge, and BEx 20:13; Deut 27:25do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for CEx 34:7; Deut 25:1; Rom 1:18I will not acquit the guilty.

8 “ADeut 10:17; 16:19; Prov 15:27; 17:8, 23; Is 5:22, 23You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and 1Or distorts the wordssubverts the cause of the just.

9 “AEx 22:21; Lev 19:33f; Deut 24:17f; 27:19You shall not oppress a 1Or sojourner(s)stranger, since you yourselves know the 2Lit soulfeelings of a 1Or sojourner(s)stranger, for you also were 1Or sojourner(s)strangers in the land of Egypt.

10 “ALev 25:1-7You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield, 11 but on the seventh year you shall let it 1Lit droprest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

12 “AEx 20:8-11; 31:15; 34:21; 35:2, 3; Lev 23:3; Deut 5:13fSix days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as 1Lit the sojourneryour stranger, may refresh themselves. 13  “Now ADeut 4:9, 23; 1 Tim 4:16concerning everything which I have said to you, be on your guard; and BJosh 23:7; Ps 16:4; Hos 2:17do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard 1Lit onfrom your mouth.

14 “AEx 23:17; 34:22-24; Deut 16:16Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. 15  “You shall observe AEx 12:14-20; Lev 23:6-8; Num 28:16-25the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the BEx 12:2; 13:4month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And 1Lit they...notCEx 22:29; 34:20none shall appear before Me empty-handed. 16  “Also you shall observe AEx 34:22; Lev 23:10; Num 28:26the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year BLev 23:39when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field. 17  “AEx 23:14; 34:23; Deut 16:16Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord 1Heb YHWH, usually rendered LoʀᴅGoᴅ.

18 “AEx 34:25; Lev 2:11You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; BEx 12:10; Lev 7:15; Deut 16:4nor is the fat of My 1Or festivalfeast to remain overnight until morning.

19 “You shall bring AEx 22:29; 34:26; Deut 26:2, 10; Neh 10:35; Prov 3:9the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the Loʀᴅ your God.

“BDeut 14:21

You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

20 “Behold, I am going to send AEx 3:2; 14:19; 23:23; 32:34; 33:2an angel before you to guard you along the way and BEx 15:16, 17to bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21  “Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; ADeut 9:7; Ps 78:40, 56do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since BEx 3:14; 6:3; 34:5-7My name is in him. 22  “But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then AGen 12:3; Num 24:9; Deut 30:7I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. 23  “AEx 23:20; Josh 24:8, 11For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them. 24  “AEx 20:5; 23:13, 33; Deut 12:30fYou shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; BNum 33:52; Deut 7:5; 12:3; 2 Kin 18:4but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their CEx 34:13; Lev 26:1; 2 Kin 3:2sacred pillars in pieces. 25  “ALev 26:3-13; Deut 6:13; 10:12; 28:1-14; Josh 22:5; 1 Sam 12:20; Matt 4:10But you shall serve the Loʀᴅ your God, 1Or that He may blessand He will bless your bread and your water; and BEx 15:26; Deut 7:15I will remove sickness from your midst. 26  “There shall be no one miscarrying or ADeut 7:14barren in your land; BDeut 4:40; Job 5:26I will fulfill the number of your days. 27  “I will AGen 35:5; Ex 15:16; Deut 2:25; Josh 2:9send My terror ahead of you, and BDeut 7:23throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will CPs 18:40; 21:12make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28  “I will send ADeut 7:20; Josh 24:12hornets ahead of you so that they will BEx 33:2; 34:11drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you. 29  “ADeut 7:22I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 30  “I will drive them out before you ADeut 7:22little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land. 31  “AGen 15:18; Deut 1:7, 8; 11:24I will fix your boundary from the 1Lit Sea of ReedsRed Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; BDeut 2:36; Josh 21:44for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will CJosh 24:12, 18drive them out before you. 32  “AEx 34:12; Deut 7:2You shall 1Lit cutmake no covenant with them BEx 23:13, 24or with their gods. 33  “ADeut 7:1-5, 16They shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, BEx 34:12; Deut 12:30; Josh 23:13; Judg 2:3; Ps 106:36it will surely be a snare to you.”