Exodus 22:26   (Read all of Exodus 22)

If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset,

Exodus 22:27   (Read all of Exodus 22)

because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

Exodus 22:29   (Read all of Exodus 22)

"Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats."You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

Exodus 22:30   (Read all of Exodus 22)

Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.

Exodus 22:31   (Read all of Exodus 22)

"You are to be my holy people. So do not eat the meat of an animal torn by wild beasts; throw it to the dogs.

Exodus 23:1   (Read all of Exodus 23)

"Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.

Exodus 23:2   (Read all of Exodus 23)

"Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd,

Exodus 23:3   (Read all of Exodus 23)

and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.

Exodus 23:4   (Read all of Exodus 23)

"If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it.

Exodus 23:5   (Read all of Exodus 23)

If 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.

Exodus 23:8   (Read all of Exodus 23)

"Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.

Exodus 23:10   (Read all of Exodus 23)

"For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops,

Exodus 23:11   (Read all of Exodus 23)

but 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.

Exodus 23:12   (Read all of Exodus 23)

"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.

Exodus 23:13   (Read all of Exodus 23)

"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.

Exodus 23:15   (Read all of Exodus 23)

"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.

Exodus 23:16   (Read all of Exodus 23)

"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.

Exodus 23:17   (Read all of Exodus 23)

"Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord.

Exodus 23:18   (Read all of Exodus 23)

"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.

Exodus 23:19   (Read all of Exodus 23)

"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.

Exodus 23:20   (Read all of Exodus 23)

"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.

Exodus 23:21   (Read all of Exodus 23)

Pay 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.

Exodus 23:22   (Read all of Exodus 23)

If 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.

Exodus 23:24   (Read all of Exodus 23)

Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces.