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"Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path." - Psalm 119:105
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1 “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t
join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
2 “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You
shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice. 3 You
shall not favor a poor man in his cause.
4 “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey
going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. 5 If you see
the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him,
you shall surely help him with it.
6 “You shall not deny justice to your poor people
in their lawsuits.
7 “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill
the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
8 “You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds
those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
9 “You shall not oppress an alien, for you know
the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
10 “For six years you shall sow your land, and
shall gather in its increase, 11 but the seventh year you shall let it
rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave
the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your
vineyard and with your olive grove.
12 “Six days you shall do your work, and on the
seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the
son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.
13 “Be careful to do all things that I have said
to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out
of your mouth.
14 “You shall observe a feast to me three times a
year. 15 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you
shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the
month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me
empty. 16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which
you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year,
when you gather in your labors out of the field. 17 Three times in the
year all your males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.
18 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice
with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the
morning. 19 The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring
into the house of Jehovah your God.
“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
20 “Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep
you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21 Pay
attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not
pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him. 22 But if you indeed
listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your
enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. 23 For my angel shall go
before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the
Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off. 24 You
shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices,
but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars. 25 You
shall serve Jehovah your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and
I will take sickness away from among you. 26 No one will miscarry or be
barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days. 27 I will send
my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I
will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 I will send the
hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the
Hittite, from before you. 29 I will not drive them out from before you in
one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply
against you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you,
until you have increased and inherit the land. 31 I will set your border
from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to
the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and
you shall drive them out before you. 32 You shall make no covenant with
them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they
make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare
to you.”
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