EXODUS 22
1 When someone steals an ox or a sheep, and slaughters it or sells
it, the thief shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. The
thief shall make restitution, but if unable to do so, shall be sold for the
theft.
2 If a thief is found breaking in, and is beaten to death, no
bloodguilt is incurred;
3 but if it happens after sunrise, bloodguilt is incurred.
4 When the animal, whether ox or donkey or sheep, is found alive in
the thief's possession, the thief shall pay double.
5 When someone causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets
livestock loose to graze in someone else's field, restitution shall be made
from the best in the owner's field or vineyard.
6 When fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain
or the standing grain or the field is consumed, the one who started the fire
shall make full restitution.
7 When someone delivers to a neighbour money or goods for
safekeeping, and they are stolen from the neighbour's house, then the thief, if
caught, shall pay double.
8 If the thief is not caught, the owner of the house shall be
brought before God, to determine whether or not the owner had laid hands on the
neighbour's goods.
9 In any case of disputed ownership involving ox, donkey, sheep, clothing,
or any other loss, of which one party says, "This is mine," the case
of both parties shall come before God; the one whom God condemns shall pay
double to the other.
10 When someone delivers to another a donkey, ox, sheep, or any other
animal for safekeeping, and it dies or is injured or is carried off, without
anyone seeing it,
11 an oath before the Lord shall decide between the two of them that
the one has not laid hands on the property of the other; the owner shall accept
the oath, and no restitution shall be made.
12 But if it was stolen, restitution shall be made to its
owner.
13 If it was mangled by beasts, let it be brought as evidence;
restitution shall not be made for the mangled remains.
14 When someone borrows an animal from another and it is injured or dies,
the owner not being present, full restitution shall be made.
15 If the owner was present, there shall be no restitution; if it was
hired, only the hiring fee is due.
16 When a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married, and
lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his
wife.
17 But if her father refuses to give her to him, he shall pay an
amount equal to the bride-price for virgins.
18 You shall not permit a female sorcerer to live.
19Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.
20 Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the Lord alone, shall be
devoted to destruction.
21 You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were
aliens in the land of Egypt.
22 You shall not abuse any widow or orphan.
23 If you do abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed
their cry;
24 my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your
wives shall become widows and your children orphans.
25 If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall
not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest from them.
26 If you take your neighbour's cloak in pawn, you shall restore it
before the sun goes down;
27 for it may be your neighbour's only clothing to use as cover; in
what else shall that person sleep? And if your neighbour cries out to me, I
will listen, for I am compassionate.
28 You shall not revile God, or curse a leader of your people.
29 You shall not delay to make offerings from the fullness of your
harvest and from 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 remain with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to
me.
31 You shall be people consecrated to me; therefore you shall not eat
any meat that is mangled by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the
dogs.
EXODUS 23
1 You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with
the wicked to act as a malicious witness.
2 You shall not follow a majority in wrongdoing; when you bear
witness in a lawsuit, you shall not side with the majority so as to pervert
justice;
3 nor shall you be partial to the poor in a lawsuit.
4 When you come upon your enemy's ox or donkey going astray, you
shall bring it back
5 When you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden and
you would hold back from setting it free, you must help to set it free.
6 You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in their
lawsuits.
7 Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and
those in the right, for I will not acquit the guilty.
8 You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials, and
subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
9 You shall not oppress a resident alien; you know the heart of an
alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
10 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, so that
the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat.
You shall do the same with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.
12 Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall
rest, so that your ox and your donkey may have relief, and your home-born slave
and the resident alien may be refreshed.
13 Be attentive to all that I have said to you. Do not invoke the
names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.
14 Three times in the year you shall hold a festival for me
15 You shall observe the festival of unleavened bread; as 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. No one shall appear before me
empty-handed.
16 You shall observe the festival of harvest, of the first fruits of
your labour, of what you sow in the field. You shall observe the festival of
ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit
of your labour.
17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the
Lord God.
18 You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything
leavened, or let the fat of my festival remain until the morning.
19 The choicest of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring
into the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's
milk
20 I am going to send an angel in front of you, to guard you on the
way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.
21 Be attentive to 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 listen attentively to his voice and do all that I say,
then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.
23 When my angel goes in front of you, and brings you to the
Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, and I blot them out,
24 you shall not bow down to their gods, or worship them, or follow
their practices, but you shall utterly demolish them and break their pillars in
pieces.
25 You shall worship the Lord your God, and I will bless your bread
and your water; and I will take sickness away from among you.
26 No one shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfil the
number of your days.
27 I will send my terror in front of you, and will throw 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 the pestilence in front of you, which shall drive
out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, or the land
would become desolate and the wild animals would multiply against you.
30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you
have increased and possess the land.
31 I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the sea of the
Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates; for I will hand over to
you the inhabitants of the land, and you shall drive them out before you.
32 You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.
33 They shall not live in your land, or they will make you sin
against me; for if you worship their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.
EXODUS 24
1 Then he said to Moses, "Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron,
Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship at a
distance.
2 Moses alone shall come near 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 all the words of the Lord and all
the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All
the words that the Lord has spoken we will do."
4 And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early in
the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and set up twelve
pillars, corresponding to the twelve tribes of Israel.
5 He sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt
offerings and sacrificed oxen as offerings of well-being to the Lord.
6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the
blood he dashed 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 Moses took the blood and dashed it on the people, and said,
"See the blood 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 saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like
a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.
11 God did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel;
also they beheld God, and they ate and drank.
12 The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and
wait there; and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the
commandment, which I have written for their instruction."
13 So Moses set out with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into
the mountain of God.
14 To the elders he had said, "Wait here for us, until we come
to you again; for Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a dispute may go to
them."
15 Then Moses went up on the mountain and the cloud covered the
mountain.
16 The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it
for six days; on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the cloud.
17 Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring
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. Moses was on
the mountain for forty days and forty nights.
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