| King James Bible | New International Version |
| 1Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. | 1"Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness. |
| 2Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: | 2"Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd, |
| 3Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. | 3and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit. |
| 4If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. | 4"If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it. |
| 5If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him. | 5If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it. |
| 6Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. | 6"Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. |
| 7Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. | 7Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty. |
| 8And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. | 8"Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent. |
| 9Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. | 9"Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt. |
| 10And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: | 10"For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, |
| 11But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard. | 11but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove. |
| 12Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. | 12"Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed. |
| 13And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. | 13"Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips. |
| 14Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. | 14"Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me. |
| 15Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) | 15"Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. "No one is to appear before me empty-handed. |
| 16And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. | 16"Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. "Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field. |
| 17Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD. | 17"Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD. |
| 18Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. | 18"Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast. "The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning. |
| 19The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. | 19"Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk. |
| 20Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. | 20"See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. |
| 21Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. | 21Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him. |
| 22But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. | 22If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. |
| 23For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. | 23My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out. |
| 24Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. | 24Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces. |
| 25And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. | 25Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, |
| 26There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. | 26and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span. |
| 27I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. | 27"I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run. |
| 28And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. | 28I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way. |
| 29I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. | 29But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you. |
| 30By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. | 30Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land. |
| 31And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. | 31"I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you. |
| 32Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. | 32Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods. |
| 33They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. | 33Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you." |
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