Justice and Mercy 1 AKJV You shall not raise a false report: put not your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. BSB BSB: “You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
2 AKJV You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: BSB BSB: You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.
3 AKJV Neither shall you countenance a poor man in his cause. BSB BSB: And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.
4 AKJV If you meet your enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. BSB BSB: If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.
5 AKJV If you see the ass of him that hates you lying under his burden, and would forbear to help him, you shall surely help with him. BSB BSB: If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.
6 AKJV You shall not wrest the judgment of your poor in his cause. BSB BSB: You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.
7 AKJV Keep you far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay you not: for I will not justify the wicked. BSB BSB: Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.
8 AKJV And you shall take no gift: for the gift blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous. BSB BSB: Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
9 AKJV Also you shall not oppress a stranger: for you know the heart of a stranger, seeing you were strangers in the land of Egypt. BSB BSB: Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Sabbath Laws (Leviticus 25:1–7; Deuteronomy 15:1–6)
10 AKJV And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in the fruits thereof: BSB BSB: For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,
11 AKJV But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie still; that the poor of your people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard, and with your olive grove. BSB BSB: but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.
12 AKJV Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest: that your ox and your ass may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. BSB BSB: 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 maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
13 AKJV And in all things that I have said to you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth. BSB BSB: Pay close 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.
The Three Feasts of Pilgrimage (Leviticus 23:1–3)
14 AKJV Three times you shall keep a feast to me in the year. BSB BSB: Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.
15 AKJV You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread: (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it you came out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) BSB BSB: You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.
17 AKJV Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the LORD God. BSB BSB: Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.
18 AKJV You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. BSB BSB: You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.
19 AKJV The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk. BSB BSB: Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
God’s Angel to Lead (Deuteronomy 7:12–26)
20 AKJV Behold, I send an Angel before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. BSB BSB: Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
21 AKJV Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. BSB BSB: Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.
22 AKJV But if you shall indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. BSB BSB: But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.
23 AKJV For my Angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. BSB BSB: For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.
24 AKJV You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but you shall utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. BSB BSB: You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.
25 AKJV And you shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless your bread, and your water; and I will take sickness away from the middle of you. BSB BSB: So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.
26 AKJV There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in your land: the number of your days I will fulfill. BSB BSB: No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
27 AKJV I will send my fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. BSB BSB: I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.
28 AKJV And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. BSB BSB: I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
29 AKJV I will not drive them out from before you in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against you. BSB BSB: I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.
30 AKJV By little and little I will drive them out from before you, until you be increased, and inherit the land. BSB BSB: Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.
31 AKJV And I will set your bounds from the Red sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and you shall drive them out before you. BSB BSB: And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
32 AKJV You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. BSB BSB: You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
33 AKJV 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. BSB BSB: They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”