Exodus — Chapter 22

He that facri- -ficeth to Gods, fhal be putto death, but to the Lordanly. 21. Thou ihale mot to take bribes.10.The feuenth yeare and day al muft reft. 14. Three pring cipal feafts muft be folemnsxed eucrie yeare.2.0. Conduction and protection of am angel is promifed. 24, The people is againe commanded to deflroy laels. 29.Why their enemies shal be deftroyed by litle and bile. A, Hov thalt not admita lying voice ; neither fhairthou ioyne » thy hand to fay falfe teftimonie for a wicked perfon. 2. Thou fhale not folow the muiticude to doe euil : neither fhalkthou in udgement argreetothe fentence ofthe moft part, to {tray trom the truth, 3. The ( 4.) poore man aifo thou thalt noe EXxXODVS. lawes. 20% not pitic iniudgement, 4..1f thou meete thy enemies oxe or afle going aftray , bring it backeto him, 5, If thou fee the affe of him that hateth thee lye vnderneath his burden, thou fhalt not paffe by, bur thalt lift him vp with thre ame, 6. Thou fhalt not decline the poore mans iudge- ment, 7, A lye thou fhale auoid, The innocent and iuft perfon thou thalt not put to death: becaufe I abhorre the impious man, 8. Neither fhalt thou take bribes, which doe blind alfo the wife, and peruert the wordes of the iuft.y, The ftranger thouthalt not moledft, for you know 4 the harts of {trangers : becaufe your felues alfo were ftrangers in the Land of Agypt. 10, Six yeares thou fhale fow thy ground, and fhalt gather the corne therof.11, But the feuenth yeare thou fhait let it alone, and make itto reft, thatthe poore of thy people may eate , and what- foeuer fhal be left, let the beafts of the field eate it : fothalt thou doe in thy vineyard and thy oliuete, 12, Six dayes thou shale worke : the feuenth day thou shalt ceafe , that thy oxe may reft and thine affe ; and the fonne of thy handmaid may be refreshed, and the ftranger,13.Keep al things that I haue faid to you, And by the name of foren Gods you thal not {weare , neither thal it be heard out of your mouth. 14. Three times euerie yeare you fhal celebrate feaftsto me, re. Thou shale keep (4) the folemnitie of Azymes, Seuen dayes (hale thou eate azymes, as commanded thee , in time of the month of new corne, when thou did{t come forth out of Agypt: thou fhal not appeare in my fight em- ptic. 16, And the folemnitie of the harueft (¢) ot the firft fruits of thy worke, whatfoeuer thou didit fow inthe field. The folemnitie alfo in the end of the yeare, (d) when thou hait gathered al thy corne out of the field, 17, Thrife a yeare fhal al thy male fexe appeare before the Lord thy God. 18. Thou fhalt not facrifice the bloud: of my victime vpon leauen, neither fhal the fac of my folemnitie remaine vntil the Morning, 1g, The frit fraits of the corne of thy ground chou fhalt carrie into the houfe ot the Lord thy God, Thou fhalt not boyle a kid inthe mulke of his damme, 20. Behold 1 wil fend myne Angel , which shal goe before thee, and keep thee in thy iourney , and bring thee into the place that I haue prepared, 21.Obferuehim,and heare his voice,neither doe thou thiake him oneto becontemned: tor he wil not forgiue when thou haft finned , and my name is in him, 22. But if thou wilt hearc his voice, and doe al thatI {peake , I wil be enemie to thyne eneinies , & wil afflict them that afflict thee.23. And myne Angel fhal goe before thee, and thal bring thee in vnto the Amorrheite, and Hetheite, & Phe- rezeite,and Chananeite,and Heueite,& lebuzeite, whom wil deftroy.