Shemot, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it;
he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. {22:2}
If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies,
there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. {22:3} If the sun has
risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed for him; he shall make
restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
{22:4} If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it
is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.
{22:5} "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets
his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make
restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his
own vineyard.
{22:6} "If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks
of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who
kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
{22:7} "If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep,
and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he
shall pay double. {22:8} If the thief isn't found, then the master of
the house shall come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his
hand to his neighbor's goods. {22:9} For every matter of trespass,
whether it be for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any
kind of lost thing, whereof one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of
both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay
double to his neighbor.
{22:10} "If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep,
or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no
man seeing it; {22:11} the oath of the LORD shall be between them
both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the
owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
{22:12} But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the
owner of it. {22:13} If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for
evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.
{22:14} "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is
injured, or dies, the owner of it not being with it, he shall surely
make restitution. {22:15} If the owner of it is with it, he shall not
make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.
{22:16} "If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married,
and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
{22:17} If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay
money according to the dowry of virgins.
{22:18} "You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
{22:19} "Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.
{22:20} "He who sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only,
shall be utterly destroyed.
{22:21} "You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress
him, for you were aliens in the land of Mitzrayim.
{22:22} "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless
child. {22:23} If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at
all to me, I will surely hear their cry; {22:24} and my wrath will
grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be
widows, and your children fatherless.
{22:25} "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor,
you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him
interest. {22:26} If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral,
you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down, {22:27} for that
is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he
sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I
am gracious.
{22:28} "You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your
people.
{22:29} "You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the
outflow of your presses.
"You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me. {22:30} You shall
do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be
with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it me.
{22:31} "You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat
any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to
the dogs.
{23:1} "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand
with the wicked to be a malicious witness. {23:2} You shall not follow
a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a
multitude to pervert justice; {23:3} neither shall you favor a poor
man in his cause.
{23:4} "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you
shall surely bring it back to him again. {23:5} If you see the donkey
of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him,
you shall surely help him with it.
{23:6} "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their
lawsuits.
{23:7} "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent
and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
{23:8} You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have
sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
{23:9} "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an
alien, seeing you were aliens in the land of Mitzrayim.
{23:10} "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in
its increase, {23:11} 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 animal of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with
your vineyard and with your olive grove.
{23:12} "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you
shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of
your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.
{23:13} "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and
don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of
your mouth.
{23:14} "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year. {23:15}
You shall observe the feast of [1>]matzah[<1]. Seven days you shall
eat [2>]matzah[<2], as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the
month Aviv (for in it you came out from Mitzrayim), and no one shall
appear before me empty. {23:16} And the [3>]Hag-HaKatzir[<3], the
first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the
[4>]Hag-HaKatzir[<4], at the end of the year, when you gather in your
labors out of the field. {23:17} Three times in the year all your
males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
{23:18} "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened
bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the
morning. {23:19} The first 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.
{23:20} "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way,
and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. {23:21} Pay
attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he
will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him. {23:22} But
if you 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. {23:23} For my angel shall go before you, and bring you
in to the Amori, the Hittite, the Perizzi, the Kana`ani, the Hivvi,
and the Yevusi; and I will cut them off. {23:24} You shall not bow
down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but
you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars. {23:25}
You shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and
your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst. {23:26} No
one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number
of your days. {23:27} I will send my terror before you, and will
confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your
enemies turn their backs to you. {23:28} I will send the hornet before
you, which will drive out the Hivvi, the Kana`ani, and the Hittite,
from before you. {23:29} I will not drive them out from before you in
one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field
multiply against you. {23:30} Little by little I will drive them out
from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.
{23:31} I will set your border from the Sea of Suf even to the sea of
the Pelishtim, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will
deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall
drive them out before you. {23:32} You shall make no covenant with
them, nor with their gods. {23:33} 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 snare to you."
{24:1} He said to Moshe, "Come up to the LORD, you, and Aharon,
Nadav, and Avihu, and seventy of the Zakenim of Yisra'el; and worship
from a distance. {24:2} Moshe alone shall come near to the LORD, but
they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."
{24:3} Moshe 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 which the LORD has spoken will we do."
{24:4} Moshe wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in
the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars
for the twelve tribes of Yisra'el. {24:5} He sent young men of the
children of Yisra'el, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed
peace-offerings of oxen to the LORD. {24:6} Moshe took half of the
blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the
altar. {24:7} 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
will we do, and be obedient."
{24:8} Moshe took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and
said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has
made with you concerning all these words."
{24:9} Then Moshe, Aharon, Nadav, Avihu, and seventy of the Zakenim
of Yisra'el went up. {24:10} They saw the God of Yisra'el. Under his
feet was like a paved work of sappir stone, like the skies for
clearness. {24:11} He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the
children of Yisra'el. They saw God, and ate and drank.
{24:12} The LORD said to Moshe, "Come up to me on the mountain, and
stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and
the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."
{24:13} Moshe rose up with Yehoshua, his servant, and Moshe went up
onto God's Mountain. {24:14} He said to the Zakenim, "Wait here for
us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aharon and Hur are with you.
Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them."
{24:15} Moshe went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the
mountain. {24:16} The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and
the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moshe out
of the midst of the cloud. {24:17} The appearance of the glory of the
LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of
the children of Yisra'el. {24:18} Moshe entered into the midst of the
cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moshe was on the mountain
forty days and forty nights.
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Footnotes:
[1] {23:15} unleavened bread
[2] {23:15} unleavened bread
[3] {23:16} feast of harvest
[4] {23:16} feast of harvest
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