Exodus 23:1 — Exodus 23:24

1 You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

2 You shall not follow a multitude to do evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute to turn aside after a multitude to pervert justice ,

3 Nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his dispute.

4 If you come upon your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him.

5 If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving it to him; you shall surely release it with him.

6 You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy in his dispute.

7 Keep far away from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked man.

8 And you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds those whose eyes are open and perverts the words of the righteous.

9 And you shall not oppress a sojourner, for you know the feelings of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

10 And six years you shall sow your land and gather its produce;

11 But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat, and what they leave, the animals of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and with your olivegrove.

12 Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall cease from work so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your female servant and the sojourner may be refreshed.

13 Now concerning everything which I have said to you, take heed to yourselves; and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let their name be heard out of your mouth.

14 Three times a year you shall hold a feast to Me.

15 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; as I commanded you, seven days you shall eat unleavened bread at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out from Egypt. And no one shall appear before Me empty.

16 And you shall keep the Feast of the Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labors from what 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 a year all your males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.

18 You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with anything leavened, nor shall the fat of My feast remain all night until the morning.

19 The first of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

20 I am now sending an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

21 Be careful before Him, and listen to His voice; do not rebel against Him, for He will not pardon your transgression; for My name is in Him.

22 But if you will 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 will go before you and bring you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.

24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars into pieces.

Exodus 22:11 — Exodus 22:31

11 The oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

12 But if it was certainly stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.

13 If it was torn in pieces, let him bring it as evidence; he shall not make restitution for that which was torn.

14 And if a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while its owner is not with it, he shall make full restitution.

15 If its owner was with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, only the hiring fee is due.

16 And if a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to become his wife.

17 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay silver according to the dowry of virgins.

18 You shall not allow a sorceress to live.

19 Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death.

20 He who sacrifices to any god, except to Jehovah only, shall be devoted to destruction.

21 And you shall not wrong a sojourner, nor shall you oppress him; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

22 You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

23 If you afflict them at all and if they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry;

24 And My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children orphans.

25 If you lend silver to My people, to the poor among you, you shall not be to him as a creditor; you shall not charge him interest.

26 If you ever take your neighbor’s garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down.

27 For that is his only covering; it is his garment for his skin. On what shall he lie down? And when he cries to Me I will hear, for I am gracious.

28 You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

29 You shall not delay to offer the fullness of your harvest and of the outflow of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.

30 You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.

31 And you shall be holy men to Me. And you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

Exodus 21:29 — Exodus 22:10

29 But if the ox was accustomed to goring previously, and its owner had been warned, but he would not keep it in, and it killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.

30 If a ransom is imposed on the owner, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed upon him.

31 If either it gores a son or it gores a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

32 If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

33 And if a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

34 The owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give silver to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

35 And if one man’s ox injures another’s so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.

36 Or if it is known that the ox was accustomed to goring previously and its owner would not keep it in, he shall surely give restitution, an ox for an ox, and the dead animal shall become his.

CHAPTER 22

1 If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.

2 If the thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him;

3 Unless the sun has risen upon him, then there shall be bloodguiltiness for him. He shall indeed make restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

4 If what he has stolen is actually found alive in his possession, whether an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall restore double.

5 If a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed, that is, he lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man’s field; from the best of his own field and from the best of his own vineyard he shall make restitution.

6 If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or what is growing in the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall surely make restitution.

7 If a man gives to his neighbor silver or goods to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, he shall restore double.

8 If the thief is not found, then the owner of the house shall come near to God to determine whether or not he laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods.

9 For every case of transgression, whether concerning an ox, concerning a donkey, concerning a sheep, concerning clothing, or concerning any lost item about which one says, This is it, the case of both parties shall come before God; he whom God declares guilty shall restore double to his neighbor.

10 If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured or driven away, with no man seeing it;

Exodus 21:7 — Exodus 21:28

7 And if a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

8 If she displeases her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he has no right to sell her to a foreign people, because he has dealt with her unfaithfully.

9 And if he designated her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.

10 If he take another woman for himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

11 And if he does not do these three things for her, then shall she go out for nothing, without payment of silver.

12 He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

13 But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God allowed him to fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place where he may flee to.

14 And if a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to slay him with guile, you shall take him even from My altar so that he may die.

15 And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

16 And he who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.

17 And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

18 And if men contend and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist so that he does not die but remains in bed;

19 If he can rise up and walk around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall be guiltless; he shall only pay for the loss of his time, until he has made sure he is completely healed.

20 And if a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a rod, and the servant dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

21 But if he survives a day or two, he shall not be punished; for he is his prop- erty.

22 And if men struggle together, and they hit a pregnant woman, so that she has a miscarriage, but there is no further mishap, he shall surely be fined what the woman’s husband shall impose upon him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.

23 But if there is further mishap, then you shall give a life for a life,

24 An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,

25 A burning for a burning, a wound for a wound, a stripe for a stripe.

26 And if a man strikes the eye of his male servant or the eye of his female servant and destroys it, he shall let that one go free on account of that one’s eye.

27 And if he knocks out his male servant’s tooth or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let that one go free on account of that one’s tooth.

28 And if an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be guiltless.

Exodus 20:11 — Exodus 21:6

11 For in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.

12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be extended upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.

13 You shall not kill.

14 You shall not commit adultery.

15 You shall not steal.

16 You shall not testify with false testimony against your neighbor.

17 You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.

18 And all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.

19 And they said to Moses, You speak with us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak with us, so we do not die.

20 And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him may be before you, so that you do not sin.

21 And the people stood at a distance, and Moses drew near to the deep darkness where God was.

22 And Jehovah said to Moses, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.

23 You shall not make other gods besides Me; gods of silver or gods of gold, you shall not make for yourselves.

24 An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

25 And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you lift up your tool upon it, you have polluted it.

26 Neither shall you go up by steps to My altar, so that your nakedness may not be uncovered on it.

CHAPTER 21

1 Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; but in the seventh he shall go out free without payment to you.

3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.

4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

5 But if the servant plainly says, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free;

6 Then his master shall bring him to God and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.