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Exodus 23:3-18 Modern English Version (MEV)

3. You must not show partiality to a poor man in his dispute.

4. If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely return it to him.

5. If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying under its burden, you must not ignore it; you must surely help with him.

6. You shall not turn justice away from your poor in his dispute.

7. Keep far away from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.

8. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and subverts the words of the righteous.

9. Also you shall not oppress a foreigner, for you know the life of a foreigner, seeing you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

10. You shall sow your land for six years and shall gather in its produce,

11. but in 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 beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

12. For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the foreigner may refresh themselves.

13. In all things that I have said to you, watch yourselves, and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard from your mouth.

14. Three times in the year you must celebrate a feast to Me.

15. You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month Aviv, for in it you came out from Egypt.No one shall appear before Me empty-­handed.

16. You shall observe the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field. You shall observe the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.

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 leavened bread, nor shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until the morning.

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