Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
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1 Thou shalt not admit a false rumour; put not thine hand with the wicked to be a false witness.
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“Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.
2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to <em>do</em> evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause hiding behind many to wrest <em>judgment</em>;
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“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 neither shalt thou honour a poor man in his cause.
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and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.
4 If thou should encounter thine enemy’s ox or his ass astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
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“If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it.
5 If thou see the ass of him that hates thee lying under his burden, will thou forbear to help him? Thou shalt surely help him to raise it up.
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If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.
6 Thou shalt not pervert the rights of thy poor in his cause.
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“Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and slay thou not the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
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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 And thou shalt take no bribe; for the bribe blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
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“Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.
9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger, for ye know the <em>state of the</em> soul of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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“Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land and shalt gather in its increase,
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“For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops,
11 but the seventh <em>year</em> thou shalt leave it <em>free</em> and release it, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard <em>and</em> with thy oliveyard.
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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 is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest, that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed.
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“Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.
13 And in all <em>things</em> that I have said unto you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
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“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 thou shalt celebrate a feast unto me in the year:
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“Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib, for in it thou didst come out from Egypt; and none shall appear before me empty),
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“Celebrate the Festival 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 Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. “No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
16 And the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field, and the feast of ingathering, <em>which is</em> in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
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“Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. “Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
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“Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD.
18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my lamb remain until the morning.
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“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 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother’s milk.
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“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.
20 Behold, I send the Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
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“See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
21 Keep thyself before him and hear his voice, grieve him not; for he will not pardon your rebellion, for my name <em>is</em> in him.
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Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him.
22 But if thou shalt indeed hear his voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies and an adversary unto those that afflict thee.
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If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you.
23 For my Angel shall go before thee and bring thee in unto <em>the land of</em> the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite the Hivite and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
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My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.
24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them and completely break down their images.
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Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces.
25 But ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take <em>all</em> sickness away from the midst of thee.
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Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you,
26 No women shall abort, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days I will fulfil.
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and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.
27 I will send my fear before thee and will trouble all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
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“I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run.
28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee.
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I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.
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But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.
30 Little by little I will drive them out from before thee until thou be multiplied and take the land by inheritance.
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Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.
31 And I will set thy borders from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines and from the desert unto the river; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and <em>thou</em> shalt drive them out before thee.
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“I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you.
32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
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Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods.
33 They shall not dwell in thy land lest peradventure they make thee sin against me <em>by</em> serving their gods, for it will be a snare unto thee.
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Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you.”
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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