Exo. 23
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23:1
You shall not bear a
1false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a
amalicious witness.
Exo. 23
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23:2
You shall not follow a
amultitude to do evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude to pervert
justice,
Exo. 23
:3
23:3
Nor shall you be
apartial to a poor man in his dispute.
Exo. 23
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23:4
If you come upon your
1aenemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely
bbring it back to him.
Exo. 23
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23:5
If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving
it to him; you shall surely release
it with him.
Exo. 23
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23:6
You shall not
apervert the justice
due to your needy
neighbor in his dispute.
Exo. 23
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23:7
Keep far away from a false charge, and do not kill the
ainnocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked man.
Exo. 23
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23:8
And you shall not take a
abribe, for a bribe blinds those whose
eyes are open and perverts the words of the righteous.
Exo. 23
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23:9
And you shall not oppress a
asojourner; for you know the feelings of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Exo. 23
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23:10
And six years you shall
asow your land and gather its produce;
Exo. 23
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But the
1seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat, and what they leave, the animals of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard
and with your olivegrove.
Exo. 23
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23:12
aSix days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall cease
from work so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your female servant and the sojourner may be refreshed.
Exo. 23
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23:13
Now concerning everything which I have said to you, take heed to yourselves; and do not mention the
aname of other gods, nor let their name be heard out of your mouth.
Exo. 23
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23:14
1aThree times a year you shall hold a feast to Me.
Exo. 23
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You shall keep the
1aFeast of Unleavened Bread; as I commanded you, seven days you shall eat
bunleavened bread at the appointed time in the month of
cAbib, for in it you came out from Egypt. And no one shall appear before Me
dempty.
Exo. 23
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And you shall keep the
1aFeast of the Harvest,
of the firstfruits of your labors
from what you sow in the field, and the
2bFeast of Ingathering, at the end of the year when you gather in
the fruit of your labors out of the field.
Exo. 23
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23:17
Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.
Exo. 23
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23:18
You shall not offer the
1blood of My sacrifice with anything
aleavened, nor shall the
2fat of My feast remain all night until the morning.
Exo. 23
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23:19
The 1first of the
afirstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not
2bboil a kid in its mother’s milk.
G.
The Angel of Jehovah for His people to take possession of the promised land
23:20-33
Exo. 23
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23:20
I am now sending an
1aAngel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
Exo. 23
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Be careful before Him, and
1listen to His voice; do not rebel against Him, for He will not pardon your transgression; for My
2name is in Him.
Exo. 23
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23:22
But if you will indeed listen to
1His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an
aenemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
Exo. 23
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For My Angel will go before you and bring you to the
1aAmorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.
Exo. 23
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23:24
You shall not bow down to their gods, nor
aserve them, nor
bdo according to their works; but you shall utterly
coverthrow them and break their pillars into pieces.
Exo. 23
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23:25
And you shall
aserve Jehovah your God, and He will
1bbless your bread and your water; and I will take
csickness away from your midst.
Exo. 23
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23:26
No one shall miscarry or be
abarren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
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I will send My
aterror before you and will throw into confusion all the people to whom you will come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
Exo. 23
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23:28
And I will send
ahornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
Exo. 23
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23:29
I will not
adrive them out from before you in
1one year, lest the land become desolate and the
banimals of the field multiply against you.
Exo. 23
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Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have become fruitful and inherit the land.
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And I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the
1sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the
2aRiver; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your
bhand, and
3you shall drive them out from before you.
Exo. 23
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23:32
You shall make no
1acovenant with them or with their gods.
Exo. 23
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23:33
They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a
asnare to you.
