Catholic Public Domain Version

Exodus 23:8-23 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

8. Neither shall you accept bribes, which blind even the prudent and subvert the words of the just.

9. You shall not harass a sojourner, for you know the life of a newcomer. For you yourselves also were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

10. For six years, you shall sow your land and gather its produce.

11. But in the seventh year, you shall release it and cause it to rest, so that the poor of your people may eat. And whatever remains, let the beasts of the field eat it. So shall you do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

12. For six days, you shall work. On the seventh day, you shall cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the newcomer and the son of your handmaid may be refreshed.

13. Preserve all that I have said to you. And by the names of foreign gods you shall not swear; neither shall these be heard from your mouth.

14. Three times in each year, you shall celebrate feasts to me.

15. You shall keep the solemnity of unleavened bread. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, just as I instructed you, at the time of the month of new grain, when you departed from Egypt. You shall not appear empty-handed in my sight,

16. for it is the solemnity of the harvest of the first-fruits of your work, of whatever you have sown in the field. Likewise, it is a solemnity at the end of the season, when you will have gathered in all your crops from the field.

17. Three times a year, all your males shall appear before the Lord your God.

18. You shall not immolate the blood of my victim over leaven, nor shall the fat of my solemnity remain until morning.

19. You shall carry the first grain of the land to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not cook a young goat in the milk of its mother.

20. Behold, I will send my Angel, who will go before you, and preserve you on your journey, and lead you into the place that I have prepared.

21. Heed him, and hear his voice, and do not hold him in disregard. For he will not release you when you have sinned, and my name is in him.

22. But if you listen to his voice and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will afflict those who afflict you.

23. And my Angel will go before you, and he will bring you to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, whom I will crush.