Tree Of Life Version

Exodus 23:3-18 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

3. On the other hand, nor should you takes sides with a poor man in his case.

4. “If you find your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you must surely bring it back to him again.

5. If you see the donkey of the one that hates you lying down under its burden, do not leave it. Rather, you are to release it with him.

6. “You are not to pervert justice to your poor in his dispute.

7. Stay far away from a false charge. Do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the guilty.

8. Take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight, and perverts the words of the righteous.

9. “Do not oppress an outsider, for you know the heart of an outsider, since you were outsiders in the land of Egypt.

10. “For six years you are to sow your land and gather the increase.

11. But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat. Whatever they leave behind, the animals of the field may eat. You are to deal with your vineyard and your olive grove in the same way.

12. “You are to do your work for six days, but on the seventh day you will rest, so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and also the son of your handmaid and the outsider may be refreshed.

13. “With all the things that I have said to you, take heed. Make no mention of the names of other gods, and do not let them be heard in your mouth.

14. “Three times in the year you are to ce­lebrate a festival for Me.

15. You are to observe the Feast of Matzot. For seven days you will eat matzot as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Aviv, for that is when you came out from Egypt. No one is to appear before Me empty-handed.

16. Also you are to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you sow in the field, as well as the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your crops from the field.

17. Three times in the year all your men are to appear before Adonai Elohim.

18. “Do not offer the blood of My sacrifice with hametz. Nor is the fat of My feast to remain out all night until the morning.