Exodus - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 76

EXODUS. receive bribes, for bribes blind open but the seventh day you shall rest, so it shall not be heard from your mouth. you shall keep for seven days. You 1 Biscuits. righteous. ‘ And you shall not oppress 2.

foreigner, for you know the feelings of a. foreigner ; since you were foreign- ers in the land of the Mitzemim. Exams of Qgrizulhxrz. ‘ For six years you shall sow the

earth., and gather its produce, but in the seventh you shall manure it, and spread it out, and the destitute of tyour people shell eat, and the rest the animals of the field shall eat. You shall do the same with your vineyards and olive plantations. Six days you shall do all your business, that your ox and your ass may take comfort, and your servants and foreigners refresh themselves. ‘And all that I say to you you

shall regard; for you shall not re- member a name of other Gods, and Entus nlmui §ncrzh Ezsiilmlz. 1`hree times in a year you shall make a festival to Me. ‘ The feast of unfermented bread 23-28

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As you shall be holy men to Me, you shall not eat of tom flesh, that has been torn in the field. You must throw it to the dogs. You shall not make a false oath. You shall not set your hand to com~ mit fraud. You shall not be a false witness. You shall not go with the power ful to do wrong; and you shall not plead for the powerful to make excuse

3 for their wrong·doing. And you shall not turn away from the poor man when he pleads. When you meet with the cow, O1' BSS Of YOU? BHBIRY Stfaylilg, YOU I0 II 72 shall take it back to him. ‘When you see the ass of your

enemy fallen under its load, and you can ease and free it for him, you shall help to free it with him. ‘ You shall not pervert justice from the destitute when he pleads. ‘ Keep far off from false pretence.

You shall not kill the innocent, and the righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. And you shall not eyes, and pervert the words of the shall eat biscuits, as I commander} you, at the season of the month of harvest} for in it you came out of Mitzer, and you did not see My presence in vain. ‘ And you shall make the feast of

the first»fruits of harvest, when you sow in the field; and the feast of harvest—home at the end of the year when you gather in your produce from the fields. I`hree times in the year all your

men shall come before Me, the Anmionrv Loan. ‘You shall not sacrifice with fer-

mented bread a blood—sacriflce to Me; and the fat of My feast shall not be kept till the morning. ‘ The best of the first-fruits of your

ground you shall bring to the hand of your EVER-LWING GoD. ‘ You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk. l`hen I will send My Messenger

before your face to guard you in your way, and to bring you to the place where I will tix you. Regard his presence, and listen to his voice. Grieve him not, that he may not rise to punish you, for My Powmz is around him. Butt if you listen to his voice, and do all that I shall command, then I will love you, but I will distress your distressers. For My Messenger shall march before you, and bring you to the Arnorites, and the Hitites, and the Perizites, and the Cananites, and the Hivites, and the jebusites, and destroy them. @r¤l;ihtli¤n at Qpngzxniaxn mth Ehnluirg. ‘ You shall not worship their Gods,

and not serve them, and you shall 16 18 20 21 2`2 not make like them, but you shall destroy, and you shall break their pillars; and you shall serve your 25 Evan-Lrvmo Goo, and He will bless your bread, and your water, and will turn war away from around you. You shall not be childless, and sterile in your land. You shall fulfil your days. rumises in ily: Euitlyful. ‘ I will send My terror before your

face, and will terrify every Nation when you arrive at them; and I will make all your enemies to turn their back to you. And I will send the 1 Ablb. 26 28