14 'If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, he must make restitution.
15 But if the owner is with the animal, the borrower will not have to pay. If the animal was hired, the money paid for the hire covers the loss.
16 'If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife.
17 If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins.
18 'Do not allow a sorceress to live.
19 'Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal must be put to death.
20 'Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the Lord must be destroyed.
21 'Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt.
22 'Do not take advantage of a widow or an orphan.
23 If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.
24 My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.
25 'If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not be like a moneylender; charge him no interest.
26 If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, return it to him by sunset,
27 because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? When he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
28 'Do not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.
29 'Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. 'You must give me the firstborn of your sons.
30 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.
31 '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.
23 'Do not spread false reports. Do not help a wicked man by being a malicious witness.
2 'Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd,
3 and do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.
4 'If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to take it back to him.
5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help him with it.
6 'Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
7 Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.
8 'Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
9 'Do not oppress an alien; you yourselves know how it feels to be aliens, because you were aliens in Egypt.
10 'For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops,
11 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 they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
12 'Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the slave born in your household, and the alien as well, may be refreshed.
13 '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.
14 'Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
15 'Celebrate the Feast 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 Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt. 'No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
16 'Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. 'Celebrate the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
17 'Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord .
18 '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.
19 '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.
