Daily
Feast
(25th
Day)
Exodus 20:13 - 23:05
This
section is designed to read the entire Bible in a year, i.e., in 365 days. The
total verses of the entire Bible are equally divided into 365 parts.
Exodus
20
13
“You shall not murder.
14
“You shall not commit adultery.
15
“You shall not steal.
16
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
17
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s
wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey,
nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
18
All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the
trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and
stayed at a distance. 19 They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we
will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”
20
Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and
that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.” 21 The people stayed at a
distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.
22
Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You
yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 23 You shall most
certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be
alongside me. 24 You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice
on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your
cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will
bless you. 25 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut
stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it. 26 You shall
not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’
21
1
“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:
2
“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he
shall go out free without paying anything. 3 If he comes in by himself, he
shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife
and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself. 5 But
if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children.
I will not go out free;’ 6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall
bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear
through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
7
“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as
the male servants do. 8 If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her
to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell
her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. 9 If he
marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter. 10 If he takes
another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her
marital rights. 11 If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free
without paying any money.
12
“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death, 13 but not
if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a
place where he shall flee. 14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his
neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
15
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
16
“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he
shall surely be put to death.
17
“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
18
“If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and
he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed; 19 if he rises again and walks around
with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for
the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly
healed.
20
“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his
hand, the man shall surely be punished. 21 Notwithstanding, if his servant gets
up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his
property.
22
“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely,
and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s
husband demands and the judges allow. 23 But if any harm follows, then you must
take life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for
foot, 25 burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
26
“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he
shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. 27 If he strikes out his male
servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go
free for his tooth’s sake.
28
“If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned,
and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held
responsible. 29 But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and this has
been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man
or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
30 If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his
life whatever is imposed. 31 Whether it has gored a son or has gored a
daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. 32 If the bull
gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels† of silver shall be
given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
33
“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull
or a donkey falls into it, 34 the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall
give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
35
“If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the
live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal. 36
Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its
owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead
animal shall be his own.
22
1
“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five
oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 2 If the thief is found breaking
in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for
him. 3 If the sun has risen on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make
restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 4 If the
stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep,
he shall pay double.
5
“If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten by letting his animal loose,
and it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best
of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.
6
“If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the
standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely
make restitution.
7
“If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out
of the man’s house, if the thief is found, he shall pay double. 8 If the thief
isn’t found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out
whether or not he has put his hand on his neighbor’s goods. 9 For every matter
of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for
any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both
parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his
neighbor.
10
“If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to
keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it; 11 the oath
of Yahweh shall be between them both, he has not put his hand on his neighbor’s
goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. 12 But
if it is stolen from him, the one who stole shall make restitution to its
owner. 13 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not
make good that which was torn.
14
“If a man borrows anything of his neighbor’s, and it is injured, or dies, its
owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution. 15 If its owner is
with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its
lease.
16
“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her,
he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly
refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of
virgins.
18
“You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
19
“Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.
20
“He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly
destroyed.
21
“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land
of Egypt.
22
“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. 23 If you take
advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their
cry; 24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and
your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
25
“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be
to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest. 26 If you take your
neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun
goes down, 27 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin.
What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear,
for I am gracious.
28
“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
29
“You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your
presses.
“You
shall give the firstborn of your sons to me. 30 You shall do likewise with your
cattle and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days, then on the
eighth day you shall give it to me.
31
“You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn
by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.
23
1
“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to
be a malicious witness.
2
“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to
side with a multitude to pervert justice. 3 You shall not favor a poor man in
his cause.
4
“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring
it back to him again. 5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down
under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.
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