| International Standard Version | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1"You are not to spread a false report, nor are you to join forces with the wicked to be a malicious witness. | 1You must not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked to be a malicious witness." |
| 2You are not to follow the majority in doing wrong, and you are not to testify in a lawsuit so as to follow the majority and pervert justice. | 2You must not follow a crowd in wrongdoing. Do not testify in a lawsuit and go along with a crowd to pervert justice. |
| 3You are not to show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit. | 3Do not show favoritism to a poor person in his lawsuit." |
| 4"If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, you are to certainly return it to him. | 4If you come across your enemy's stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him." |
| 5If you see your enemy's donkey lying helpless under its load, you must not abandon it; rather, you are certainly to return it to him. | 5If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it." |
| 6"You are not to pervert justice for the poor among you in their lawsuits. | 6You must not deny justice to a poor person among you in his lawsuit. |
| 7Stay far away from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent or the righteous, because I won't acquit the guilty. | 7Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent and the just, because I will not justify the guilty. |
| 8You are not to take a bribe because a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the righteous. | 8You must not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words of the righteous. |
| 9You are not to oppress the resident alien, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt." | 9You must not oppress a foreign resident; you yourselves know how it feels to be a foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt." |
| 10"You are to sow your land and gather its crops for six years, | 10Sow your land for six years and gather its produce. |
| 11but you are to let it rest the seventh year, leaving it unplanted. The poor of your people may eat from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. You are to do the same with your vineyards and olive groves. | 11But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it uncultivated, so that the poor among your people may eat from it and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove." |
| 12You are to do your work for six days, but on the seventh day you are to refrain from work so that your ox and donkey may rest, and so the son of your maidservant and the alien may be refreshed. | 12Do your work for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the foreign resident may be refreshed." |
| 13"Be careful about everything I've told you, and don't mention the name of other gods. Don't let them be heard in your mouth!" | 13Pay strict attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips." |
| 14"Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival for me. | 14Celebrate a festival in My honor three times a year. |
| 15You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month Abib, because in it you came out of Egypt. No one is to appear before me empty handed. | 15Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, because you came out of Egypt in that month. No one is to appear before Me empty-handed. |
| 16You are to observe the Festival of Harvest, celebrating the first fruits of your work in planting the field, and the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather the fruit of your work from the field. | 16Also observe the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of your produce from what you sow in the field, and observe the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field. |
| 17Three times a year all your males shall appear in the presence of the Lord GOD." | 17Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD." |
| 18"You are not to offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, and you are not to let the fat portion of my sacrifice remain overnight until morning. | 18You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened. The fat of My festival offering must not remain until morning." |
| 19"You are to bring the best of the first fruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "You are not to boil a young goat in its mother's milk." | 19Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the LORD your God." You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk." |
| 20"Look, I'm sending an angel in front of you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place I've prepared. | 20I am going to send an angel before you to protect you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared. |
| 21Be careful! Be sure to obey him. Don't rebel against him, because he won't forgive your transgression, since my Name is in him. | 21Be attentive to him and listen to his voice. Do not defy him, because he will not forgive your acts of rebellion, for My name is in him. |
| 22Indeed, if you carefully obey him and do everything that I say, then I'll be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries, | 22But if you will carefully obey him and do everything I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes. |
| 23because my angel will go ahead of you and will bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I'll annihilate them. | 23For My angel will go before you and bring you to the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out. |
| 24You are not to bow down to their gods or serve them. You are not to follow their practices, but you are to overthrow them completely and smash their sacred stones to pieces. | 24You must not bow down to their gods or worship them. Do not imitate their practices. Instead, demolish them and smash their sacred pillars to pieces. |
| 25You are to serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your food and water, and I'll remove sickness from you. | 25Worship the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. I will remove illnesses from you. |
| 26No woman will miscarry or be barren in your land, and I'll make every day of your life complete. | 26No woman will miscarry or be childless in your land. I will give you the full number of your days." |
| 27"I'll go ahead of you and terrorize all the people to whom you are coming. I'll confuse your enemies and make them turn their backs on you and run away. | 27I will cause the people ahead of you to feel terror and throw into confusion all the nations you come to. I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you in retreat. |
| 28I'll send hornets ahead of you and they'll drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you. | 28I will send the hornet in front of you, and it will drive the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites away from you. |
| 29I won't drive them out before you in a single year, so that the land does not become desolate and so that wild animals do not overrun you. | 29I will not drive them out ahead of you in a single year; otherwise, the land would become desolate, and wild animals would multiply against you. |
| 30I'll drive them out ahead of you little by little until you increase in numbers and possess the land. | 30I will drive them out little by little ahead of you until you have become numerous and take possession of the land. |
| 31"I'll set your borders from the Reed Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, bringing the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you are to drive them out ahead of you. | 31I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. For I will place the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you will drive them out ahead of you. |
| 32You are not to make a covenant with them or with their gods. | 32You must not make a covenant with them or their gods. |
| 33They are not to live in your land. Otherwise they will cause you to sin against me. If you worship their gods, it will become a snare for you." | 33They must not remain in your land, or else they will make you sin against Me. If you worship their gods, it will be a snare for you." |
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