Justice and Mercy

1Thou shalt not receiue a false tale, neyther shalt thou put thine hande with the wicked, to be a false witnes. 2Thou shalt not followe a multitude to do euil, neither agree in a controuersie to decline after many and ouerthrowe the trueth. 3Thou shalt not esteeme a poore man in his cause.

4If thou meete thine enemies oxe, or his asse going astray, thou shalt bring him to him againe. 5If thou see thine enemies asse lying vnder his burden, wilt thou cease to helpe him? Thou shalt helpe him vp againe with it.

6Thou shalt not ouerthrowe the right of thy poore in his sute. 7Thou shalt keepe thee farre fro a false matter, and shalt not slaye the innocent and the righteous: for I will not iustifie a wicked man.

8Thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the wordes of the righteous.

9Thou shalt not oppresse a stranger: for ye knowe the heart of a stranger, seeing yee were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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

10Moreouer, sixe yeres thou shalt sowe thy land, and gather the fruites thereof, 11But the seuenth yeere thou shalt let it rest and lie still, that the poore of thy people may eat, and what they leaue, the beastes of the fielde shal eate. In like maner thou shalt doe with thy vineyard, and with thine oliue trees.

12Sixe dayes thou shalt do thy worke, and in the seuenth day thou shalt rest, that thine oxe, and thine asse may rest, and the sonne of thy maide and the stranger may be refreshed. 13And ye shall take heede to all things that I haue sayde vnto you: and ye shall make no mention of the name of other gods, neither shal it be heard out of thy mouth.

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

14Three times thou shalt keepe a feast vnto me in the yeere. 15Thou shalt keepe the feast of vnleauened bread: thou shalt eate vnleauened bread seue dayes, as I commaunded thee, in the season of the moneth of Abib: for in it thou camest out of Egypt: and none shall appeare before me emptie: 16The feast also of the haruest of the first fruites of thy labours, which thou hast sowen in the fielde: and the feast of gathering fruites in the ende of the yere, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the fielde. 17These three times in the yeere shall all thy men children appeare before the Lord Iehouah.

18Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leauened bread: neyther shall the fatte of my sacrifice remayne vntill the morning.

19The first of the first fruites of thy lande thou shalt bring into the house of the Lorde thy God: yet shalt thou not seeth a kid in his mothers milke.

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

20Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keepe thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place which I haue prepared. 21Beware of him, and heare his voyce, and prouoke him not: for he will not spare your misdeedes, because my name is in him. 22But if thou hearken vnto his voyce, & do all that I speake, the I wil be an enemie vnto thine enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee. 23For mine Angel shall go before thee, & bring thee vnto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, and I will destroy them. 24Thou shalt not bow downe to their gods, neither serue them, nor doe after the workes of them: but vtterly ouerthrowe them, and breake in pieces their images. 25For ye shall serue the Lord your God, and he shall blesse thy bread and thy water, & I will take all sickenes away from the middes of thee. 26There shall none cast their fruite nor be baren in thy lande: the number of thy dayes will I fulfill. 27I will send my feare before thee, & will destroy all the people among whome thou shalt go: and I will make all thine enemies turne their backes vnto thee: 28And I will sende hornets before thee, which shal driue out the Hiuites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from thy face. 29I will not cast them out from thy face in one yeere, least the land grow to a wildernes: & the beasts of the field multiplie against thee. 30By litle and litle I will driue them out from thy face, vntill thou increase, and inherite the lande. 31And I will make thy coastes from the red sea vnto the sea of the Philistims, and from the desert vnto the Riuer: for I will deliuer the inhabitants of the lande into your hande, and thou shalt driue them out from thy face. 32Thou shalt make no couenant with them, nor with their gods: 33Neither shall they dwell in thy lande, least they make thee sinne against me: for if thou serue their gods, surely it shall be thy destruction.