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Exodus
Chapter 23
1 Thou shalt not utter a false report; put
not thy hand with the wicked to be an
unrighteous witness. 2 Thou shalt not
follow a multitude to do evil; neither
shalt thou bear witness in a cause to turn
aside after a multitude to pervert
justice; 3 neither shalt thou favour a
poor man in his cause. 4 If thou meet
thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray,
thou shalt surely bring it back to him
again. 5 If thou see the ass of him that
hateth thee lying under its burden, thou
shalt forbear to pass by him; thou shalt
surely release it with him. 6 Thou shalt
not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his
cause. 7 Keep thee far from a false
matter; and the innocent and righteous
slay thou not; for I will not justify the
wicked. 8 And thou shalt take no gift; for
a gift blindeth them that have sight, and
perverteth the words of the righteous. 9
And a stranger shalt thou not oppress; for
ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye
were strangers in the land of Egypt. 10
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and
gather in the increase thereof; 11 but the
seventh year thou shalt let it rest and
lie fallow, that the poor of thy people
may eat; and what they leave the beast of
the field shall eat. In like manner thou
shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy
oliveyard. 12 Six days thou shalt do thy
work, but on the seventh day thou shalt
rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have
rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the
stranger, may be refreshed. 13 And in all
things that I have said unto you take ye
heed; and make no mention of the name of
other gods, neither let it be heard out of
thy mouth. 14 Three times thou shalt keep
a feast unto Me in the year. 15 The feast
of unleavened bread shalt thou keep; seven
days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I
commanded thee, at the time appointed in
the month Abib--for in it thou camest out
from Egypt; and none shall appear before
Me empty; 16 and the feast of harvest, the
first-fruits of thy labours, which thou
sowest in the field; and the feast of
ingathering, at the end of the year, when
thou gatherest in thy labours out of the
field. 17 Three times in the year all thy
males shall appear before the Lord GOD. 18
Thou shalt not offer the blood of My
sacrifice with leavened bread; neither
shall the fat of My feast remain all night
until the morning. 19 The choicest
first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring
into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou
shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's
milk.
20 Behold, I send an angel before thee, to
keep thee by the way, and to bring thee
into the place which I have prepared. 21
Take heed of him, and hearken unto his
voice; be not rebellious against him; for
he will not pardon your transgression; for
My name is in him. 22 But if thou shalt
indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all
that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto
thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine
adversaries. 23 For Mine angel shall go
before thee, and bring thee in unto the
Amorite, and the Hittite, and the
Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite,
and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods,
nor serve them, nor do after their doings;
but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and
break in pieces their pillars. 25 And ye
shall serve the LORD your God, and He will
bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will
take sickness away from the midst of thee.
26 None shall miscarry, nor be barren, in
thy land; the number of thy days I will
fulfil. 27 I will send My terror before
thee, and will discomfit all the people to
whom thou shalt come, and I will make all
thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
28 And I will send the hornet before thee,
which shall drive out the Hivite, the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before
thee. 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. 30 By little
and little I will drive them out from
before thee, until thou be increased, and
inherit the land. 31 And I will set thy
border from the Red Sea even unto the sea
of the Philistines, and from the
wilderness unto the River; for I will
deliver the inhabitants of the land into
your hand; and thou shalt drive them out
before thee. 32 Thou shalt make no
covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33 They shall not dwell in thy land--lest
they make thee sin against Me, for thou
wilt serve their gods--for they will be a
snare unto thee.
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