1: Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with
the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. |
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2: Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak
in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: |
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Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
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4: If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt
surely bring it back to him again. |
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5: 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. |
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6: Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
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7: Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay
thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. |
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8: And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and
perverteth the words of the righteous. |
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9: Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a
stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. |
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10: And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits
thereof: |
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11: 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.
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12: 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. |
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13: 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.
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14: Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
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15: 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:) |
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16: 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. |
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17: Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord
GOD. |
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18: Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread;
neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. |
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19: 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.
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20: Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to
bring thee into the place which I have prepared. |
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21: Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not
pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. |
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22: 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. |
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23: For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the
Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the
Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. |
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24: 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. |
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25: 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. |
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26: There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the
number of thy days I will fulfill. |
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27: 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. |
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28: And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the
Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. |
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29: 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 |
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30: By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until
thou be increased, and inherit the land. |
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31: 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. |
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32: Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
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33: 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. |