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Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. |
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Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest justice: |
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neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause. |
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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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If 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. |
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Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause. |
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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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And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous. |
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And a sojourner shalt thou not oppress: for ye know the heart of a sojourner, seeing ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt. |
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And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof: |
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but 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. |
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Six 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. |
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And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other deities, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. |
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Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. |
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The 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: |
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and 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. |
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Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Master YAHUVEH. |
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Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning. |
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The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of YAHUVEH thy YAHUVEH. Thou shalt not boil a kid in it mother's milk. |
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Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. |
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Take 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. |
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But 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. |
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For 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. |
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Thou shalt not bow down to their deities, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars. |
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And ye shall serve YAHUVEH your YAHUVEH, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. |
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There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. |
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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. |
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And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. |
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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. |
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By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. |
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And 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. |
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Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their deities. |
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They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve their deities, it will surely be a snare unto thee. |