1 q“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. 2 You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, 3 rnor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.
4 s“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him. 5 tIf you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.
6 u“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. 7 Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the vinnocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. 8 And you shall wtake no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
9 x“You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for yyou were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals
10 z“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, 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 beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.
12 a“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.
13 “Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and bmake no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.
14 c“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. 15 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. dAs I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed. 16 You shall keep the eFeast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the fFeast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. 17 gThree times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.
18 h“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.
19 i“The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.
j“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Conquest of Canaan Promised
20 k“Behold, I send an langel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. 21 Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not mrebel against him, for nhe will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.
22 “But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then oI will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
23 p“When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, 24 you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, qnor do as they do, but ryou shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces. 25 You shall sserve the Lord your God, and the1 will bless your bread and your water, and uI will take sickness away from among you. 26 None shall miscarry vor be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. 27 I will send my wterror before you and will xthrow into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 And I will send yhornets2 before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. 29 zI will not drive them out from before you ain one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you. 30 Little by little bI will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. 31 And cI will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates,3 for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and dyou shall drive them out before you. 32 eYou shall make no covenant with them and 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 fsnare to you.”
The Covenant Confirmed
1 Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and gseventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar. 2 Moses alone shall come near to the Lord, but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.”
3 Moses came and told the people hall the words of the Lord and iall the rules.4 And all the people answered with one voice and said, j“All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do.” 4 And Moses kwrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and ltwelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord. 6 And mMoses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he nthrew against the altar. 7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.” 8 And Moses took the blood and othrew it on the people and said, “Behold the pblood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, 10 and they qsaw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of rsapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. 11 And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank.
12 The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the stablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.” 13 So Moses rose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses twent up into the umountain of God. 14 And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has a dispute, let him go to them.”
15 Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the vcloud covered the mountain. 16 wThe glory of the Lord xdwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a ydevouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel. 18 Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain zforty days and forty nights.
Laborers in the Vineyard
1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his ivineyard. 2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius1 a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ 5 So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ 7 They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’ 8 And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and jpay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’ 9 And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. 10 Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. 11 And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, 12 saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ 13 But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. 15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’2 16 kSo the last will be first, and the first last.”
