¹You will not lift up an empty report; do not set your hand with the wicked to be a witness for violence.

²You will not go along after the many to do wicked deeds, and you will not answer in a dispute by leaning after the many, to bend it aside.

³And you will not favor a poor person in his dispute.

⁴If you meet the ox of your enemy or his donkey wandering off, you will surely bring it back to him.

⁵If you see the donkey of one who hates you crouching under its load, and you would refrain from leaving it — you will surely set it loose with him.

⁶You will not turn aside the justice of your needy one in his dispute.

⁷You will keep far from a word of falsehood, and the innocent and the righteous you will not kill, for I will not declare the wicked righteous.

⁸And you will not take a bribe, for the bribe blinds the clear-sighted and twists the words of the righteous.

⁹And you will not oppress a sojourner; you yourselves know the being of the sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

¹⁰And for six years you will sow your land and gather its produce.

¹¹But in the seventh year you will release it and leave it alone, so that the needy of your people may eat; and what they leave over, the animals of the field will eat. So you will do with your vineyard, with your olive grove.

¹²Six days you will do your work, and on the seventh day you will cease, so that your ox and your donkey may settle, and the son of your maidservant and the sojourner may take breath.

¹³And in all that I have said to you, be on guard; and you will not mention the name of other gods — let it not be heard from your mouth.

¹⁴Three times in the year you will celebrate a pilgrim-feast for me.

¹⁵You will keep the festival of the unleavened bread: seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of the ear, for in it you went out from Egypt. And they will not appear before my face empty-handed.

¹⁶And the festival of the harvest, the firstfruits of your work which you sow in the field; and the festival of the ingathering at the going out of the year, when you gather your work from the field.

¹⁷Three times in the year all your males will appear before the face of the lord Yahweh.

¹⁸You will not sacrifice the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, and the fat of my festival will not stay overnight until morning.

¹⁹The first of the firstfruits of your ground you will bring to the house of Yahweh your God. You will not boil a kid in the milk of its mother.

²⁰Look, I am sending a messenger before you, to keep you on the way and to bring you to the place which I have prepared.

²¹Be on guard before his face and listen to his voice; do not embitter him; for he will not lift away your transgression; for my name is within him.

²²If you truly listen to his voice and do all that I speak, I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will be a foe to those who press upon you.

²³For my messenger will go before you and bring you to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, and I will wipe them out.

²⁴You will not bow down to their gods, and you will not serve them, and you will not do like their deeds; but you will surely tear down them and shatter their pillars to pieces.

²⁵You will serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your food and your water, and I will take away sickness from your midst.

²⁶No woman will be miscarrying or barren in your land; I will fill the number of your days.

²⁷I will send my dread before you and throw into confusion every people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn the back of the neck to you.

²⁸And I will send the hornet before you, and it will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.

²⁹I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a wasteland and the beast of the field multiply against you.

³⁰Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you are fruitful and take possession of the land.

³¹I will fix your border from the Sea of Reeds to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will give the ones who dwell in the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

³²You will not cut a covenant with them or with their gods.

³³They will not dwell in your land, lest they cause you to sin against me; for you will serve their gods; for it will become a trap to you.