1 T hou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

`Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

2 T hou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest justice:

`Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause to turn aside;

3 n either shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.

and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.

4 I f thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

`When thou meetest thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou dost certainly turn it back to him;

5 I f thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release it with him.

when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving to it -- thou dost certainly leave with him.

6 T hou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause.

`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

7 K eep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.

8 A nd thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

`And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open-, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

9 A nd a sojourner shalt thou not oppress: for ye know the heart of a sojourner, seeing ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

`And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye -- ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

10 A nd six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof:

`And six years thou dost sow thy land, and hast gathered its increase;

11 b ut the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

and the seventh thou dost release it, and hast left it, and the needy of thy people have eaten, and their leaving doth the beast of the field eat; so dost thou to thy vineyard -- to thine olive-yard.

12 S ix days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.

`Six days thou dost do thy work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest, so that thine ox and thine ass doth rest, and the son of thine handmaid and the sojourner is refreshed;

13 A nd in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

and in all that which I have said unto you ye do take heed; and the name of other gods ye do not mention; it is not heard on thy mouth.

14 T hree times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

`Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year;

15 T he feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it thou camest out from Egypt); and none shall appear before me empty:

the Feast of Unleavened things thou dost keep; seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, as I have commanded thee, at the time appointed the month of Abib; for in it thou hast come forth out of Egypt, and ye do not appear My presence empty;

16 a nd the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sowest in the field: and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labors out of the field.

and the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of thy works which thou sowest in the field; and the Feast of the In-Gathering, in the outgoing of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field.

17 T hree times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.

`Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the face of the Lord Jehovah.

18 T hou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.

`Thou dost not sacrifice on a fermented thing the blood of My sacrifice, and the fat of My festival doth not remain till morning;

19 T he first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in it mother's milk.

the beginning of the first-fruits of thy ground thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

20 B ehold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

`Lo, I am sending a messenger before thee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee in unto the place which I have prepared;

21 T ake ye heed before him, and hearken unto his voice; provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgression: for my name is in him.

be watchful because of his presence, and hearken to his voice, rebel not against him, for he beareth not with your transgression, for My name in his heart;

22 B ut if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

for, if thou diligently hearken to his voice, and hast done all that which I speak, then I have been at enmity with thine enemies, and have distressed those distressing thee.

23 F or mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: and I will cut them off.

`For My messenger goeth before thee, and hath brought thee in unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and I have cut them off.

24 T hou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.

`Thou dost not bow thyself to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their doings, but dost utterly devote them, and thoroughly break their standing pillars.

25 A nd ye shall serve Jehovah your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

`And ye have served Jehovah your God, and He hath blessed thy bread and thy water, and I have turned aside sickness from thine heart;

26 T here shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

there is not a miscarrying and barren one in thy land; the number of thy days I fulfil:

27 I will send my terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

My terror I send before thee, and I have put to death all the people among whom thou comest, and I have given the neck of all thine enemies unto thee.

28 A nd I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

`And I have sent the hornet before thee, and it hath cast out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee;

29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.

I cast them not out from before thee in one year, lest the land be a desolation, and the beast of the field hath multiplied against thee;

30 B y little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

little little I cast them out from before thee, till thou art fruitful, and hast inherited the land.

31 A nd I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand: and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

`And I have set thy border from the Red Sea, even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I give into your hand the inhabitants of the land, and thou hast cast them out from before thee;

32 T hou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

thou dost not make a covenant with them, and with their gods;

33 T hey 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.

they do not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against Me when thou servest their gods, when it becometh a snare to thee.'