23:1 You must not give a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
23:2 You must not go after a crowd into evil things; in a lawsuit you must not offer testimony that agrees with a crowd so as to pervert justice, 23:3 and you must not show favor to a poor man in his lawsuit.
23:4 If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return it to him. 23:5 If you see the donkey of the one who hates you lying under its load, you must not ignore him, but be sure to help him with it.
23:6 You must not turn away justice for your poor in their lawsuits. 23:7 Keep your distance from a false charge — do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I do not justify the wicked.
23:8 And you must not receive a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and subverts the words of the righteous.
23:9 And you must not oppress a resident foreigner, for you know the life of a resident foreigner, for you were resident foreigners in the land of Egypt.
23:10 For six years you are to sow your land and gather in its produce. 23:11 But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the animals may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove. 23:12 For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant’s son and any hired help may refresh themselves.
23:13 Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not make mention of the names of other gods — do not let them be heard on your lips.
23:14 Three times in the year you must make a pilgrim feast to me. 23:15 You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days you must eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for at that time you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before me empty.
23:16 You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest, the first-fruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you have gathered in your labors out of the field. 23:17 At three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord God.
23:18 You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; the fat of my festal sacrifice must not remain until morning. 23:19 The first of the first-fruits of your soil you must bring to the house of The Lord your God.