Tree Of Life Version

Exodus 23:4-12 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

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.