Justice and Mercy

1Thou shalt not take up a false report: thou shalt not put thy hand with the unjust one to be a witness of wrong. 2Thou shalt not be after multitudes for evil; thou shalt not answer for the multitude to stretch out after multitudes to pervert justice. 3And the poor one thou shalt not make proud in his cause.

4If thou shalt meet thine enemy's ox or his ass wandering, turning back, thou shalt turn him back to him. 5If thou shalt see the ass of him hating thee, lying down under his load, and thou didst desist from cutting loose for him, releasing, thou shall release with him.

6Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy needy in his cause. 7From the word of falsehood thou shalt go far away; and the innocent and the just one thou shalt not kill: for I will not justify the unjust one.

8And thou shalt not take a gift; for the gift will blind the seeing, and will pervert just words.

9Thou shalt not press the stranger: and ye knew the soul of the stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Sabbath Laws
(Leviticus 25:1–7; Deuteronomy 15:1–6)

10Six years shalt thou sow thy land, and gather its produce: 11And the seventh thou shalt remit, and let it be; and the poor of thy people shall eat; and the remains, the beast of the field shall eat. So shalt thou do to thy vineyard and to thy olive tree.

12Six days thou shalt do thy works, and in the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox shall rest, and thine ass, and the son of thy maid shall be refreshed, and the stranger. 13And in all which I said to you ye shall watch; and ye shall not call to mind the name of other gods; it shall not be heard above thy mouth.

The Three Feasts of Pilgrimage
(Leviticus 23:1–3)

14Three times thou shalt keep a festival to me in the year. 15Thou shalt watch the festival of unleavened: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened as I commanded thee according to the appointment of the month Abib; for in it thou camest forth out of Egypt: and they shall not be seen before me empty. 16And the festival of the harvest, the first fruits of thy works, which thou shalt sow in the field: and the festival of gathering in the going out of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field. 17Three times in the year every male of thine shall be seen to the face of the Lord Jehovah.

18Thou shalt not sacrifice upon leaven: the blood of my sacrifice, and the fat of my festival shall not remain over till morning.

19The sacrifice of the first fruits of thy land thou shalt bring to the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother's milk.

God’s Angel to Lead
(Deuteronomy 7:12–26)

20Behold, I send a messenger before thee to guard thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place which I prepared. 21Watch from his face, and hear to his voice; thou shalt not rebel against him: he will not lift up your transgression; for my name is in the midst of him. 22For if hearing thou shalt hear to his voice, and to all that I shall speak; and I was an enemy to thine enemies, and I was hostile to thine adversaries. 23For my messenger shall go before thee, and bring thee to the Amorites, and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I destroyed them. 24Thou shalt not worship to their gods, and thou shalt not serve them, and thou shalt not do according to their works: for destroying, thou shalt destroy them, and breaking, thou shalt break in pieces their pillars. 25And serve ye Jehovah your God, and he blessed thy bread, and thy waters; and I turned away disease from the midst of thee. 26And there shall not be bereaving of children or barren upon thy land: the number of thy days I will fill up. 27I will send my terror before thee and I killed all the people which thou shalt come to them; and I gave all thine enemies the back to thee. 28And I sent hornets before thee and to drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee. 29I will not drive them out from thy face in one year, lest the land shall be desolate, and the beast of the field multiply upon thee. 30By little and little I will drive them out from thy face, till when thou shalt be fruitful and thou didst inherit the land. 31And I put thy bounds from the sea of sedge, and even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert even to the river: for I will give into your hand those inhabiting the land, and thou drove them out from before thee. 32Thou shalt not make a covenant with them and to their gods. 33They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they shall cause thee to sin against me: if thou shalt serve their gods, surely shall it be to thee for a snare.