1 GLT You shall not take up a report of emptiness. You shall not put your hand with the wicked to be a witness of violence. BSB BSB: “You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
2 GLT You shall not follow a crowd into evil, nor shall you testify on legal matters to turn aside behind the crowd that turns aside. 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 GLT And you shall not favor the poor in his lawsuit. BSB BSB: And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.
4 GLT If you meet the ox of your enemy or his donkey going astray, you shall certainly bring it back to him. BSB BSB: If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.
5 GLT If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen to the ground under its load, you shall refrain from leaving him. You shall surely release it 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 GLT You shall not turn aside justice for your poor in his lawsuit. BSB BSB: You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.
7 GLT You shall be far from a word of deception, and you shall not kill the innocent or righteous, 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 GLT And you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe blinds the clear- sighted, and it 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 GLT And you shall not oppress a foreigner, since you yourself know the soul of the foreigner, for you were foreigners 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.
10 GLT And six years you shall sow your land and gather its produce. BSB BSB: For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,
11 GLT But the seventh you shall let it drop and leave it alone, and the poor of your people shall eat. And the living things of the field shall eat the reminder. You shall do thus to your vineyard and to your olive orchard. 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 GLT Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave and the sojourner 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 GLT You shall take heed to everything that I have said to you. You shall not mention the names of other gods, nor let them be heard on 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.
14 GLT You shall celebrate me three times every year. BSB BSB: Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.
15 GLT You shall keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread. You shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the appointed time, the month of Aviv, for in it you came out from Egypt. And you shall not appear at my face empty- handed. 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 GLT Three times in a year, all your males shall appear to the face of the Lord Yahweh. BSB BSB: Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.
18 GLT You shall not sacrifice the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, and the fat of my festival shall not remain all night until 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 GLT You shall bring the first of the firstfruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother. 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.
20 GLT Behold, I am about to send an angel before your face to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that 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 GLT Be guarded from his face and listen to his voice. Do not cause bitterness in him, for he will not bear with your transgressions, for my name is within 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 GLT For if you indeed heed his voice and do everything that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and I will be 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 GLT For my angel will go before your face and bring you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites. I will annihilate them. 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 GLT You shall not bow down to their gods, and you shall not serve them, and you shall not do as they do. For you shall completely overthrow them and completely smash their stone pillars. 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 GLT And you shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water. And I will remove sickness from among 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 GLT There will not be a miscarriage or a barren woman in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days. BSB BSB: No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
27 GLT I will send my terror before your face, and I will confuse all of the people into whom you will go, and I will give the back of the neck of all of your enemies 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 GLT And I will send the hornet before your face, and it will drive out the Hivites, Canaanites, and the Hittites from before your face. BSB BSB: I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
29 GLT I will not drive them out from before your face in one year, lest the land become desolate and the animals of the field become too many for 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 GLT I will drive them out little by little from before your face until you become fruitful and possess the land. BSB BSB: Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.
31 GLT And I will set your borders from the Sea of Reeds to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the river. For I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand. And you will drive them out from before your faces. 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 GLT You shall not make a covenant with them or with their gods. BSB BSB: You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
33 GLT They shall not live in your land, lest they cause you to sin against me; for you will serve their gods. Surely it will become a snare for 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.”