²⁷ First, ·finish your outside work [execute/establish your affairs in public]
    and prepare your fields.
After that, you can build your house.

²⁸ Don’t ·testify [witness] against your neighbor for no good reason.
    Don’t ·say things that are false [^Ldeceive with your lips].
²⁹ Don’t say, “·I’ll get even [^LAs they did to me so I will do to them];
    I’ll ·do to him what he did to me [repay them according to their actions].”