Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Revised Standard NRS
1 Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.
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You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with the wicked to act as a malicious witness.
2 Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from the truth.
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You shall not follow a majority in wrongdoing; when you bear witness in a lawsuit, you shall not side with the majority so as to pervert justice;
3 Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment.
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nor shall you be partial to the poor in a lawsuit.
4 If thou meet thy enemy’s ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him
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When you come upon your enemy's ox or donkey going astray, you shall bring it back
5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his burden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with him.
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When you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden and you would hold back from setting it free, you must help to set it free.
6 Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man’s judgment.
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You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in their lawsuits.
7 Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.
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Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and those in the right, for I will not acquit the guilty.
8 Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.
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You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials, and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
9 Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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You shall not oppress a resident alien; you know the heart of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
10 Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn thereof.
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For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield;
11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer it to rest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and whatsoever shall be left, let the beasts of the field eat it: so shalt thou do with thy vineyard and thy oliveyard.
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but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.
12 Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt cease, that thy ox and thy ass may rest: and the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed.
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Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your donkey may have relief, and your homeborn slave and the resident alien may be refreshed.
13 Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of strange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your mouth.
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Be attentive to all that 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 every year you shall celebrate feasts to me
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Three times in the year you shall hold a festival for me
15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear empty before me.
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You shall observe the festival of unleavened bread; as I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. No one shall appear before me empty-handed.
16 And the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy work, whatsoever thou hast sown in the field. The feast also in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in all thy corn out of the field.
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You shall observe the festival of harvest, of the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall observe the festival of ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.
17 Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God.
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Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.
18 Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven, neither shall the fat of my solemnity remain until the morning.
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You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my festival remain until the morning.
19 Thou shalt carry the first-fruits of the corn of thy ground to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam
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The choicest of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk
20 Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have prepared.
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I am going to send an angel in front of you, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.
21 Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think him one to be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my name is in him
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Be attentive to him and listen to his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression; for my name is in him
22 But if thou wilt hear hi voice, and do all that I speak, I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee.
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But if you listen attentively to his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.
23 And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherexite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hevite, and the Jebuzite, whom I will destroy.
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When my angel goes in front of you, and brings you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I blot them out,
24 Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues.
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you shall not bow down to their gods, or worship them, or follow their practices, but you shall utterly demolish them and break their pillars in pieces.
25 And you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless your bread and your waters, and may take away sickness from the midst of thee.
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You shall worship the Lord your God, and I will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from among you.
26 There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land: I will fill the number of thy days.
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No one shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies before thee:
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I will send my terror in front of you, and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
28 Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before thou come in.
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And I will send the pestilence in front of you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
29 I will not cast them out from thy face in one year; lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee.
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I will not drive them out from before you in one year, or the land would become desolate and the wild animals would multiply against you.
30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, till thou be increased, and dost possess the land.
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Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land.
31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from before you.
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I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates; for I will hand over to you the inhabitants of the land, and you shall drive them out before you.
32 Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods.
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You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.
33 Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps they make thee sin against me, if thou serve their gods; which, undoubtedly, will be a scandal to thee.
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They shall not live in your land, or they will make you sin against me; for if you worship their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.
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