Exodus 23
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- Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand
with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- 2
- Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither
shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
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- Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
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- 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
his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with
him.
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- 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 the gift blindeth the
wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
- 9
- Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: 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 shalt gather
in the fruits thereof:
- 11
- But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie
still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts
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, and on the seventh day
thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy
handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
- 13
- And in all things that I have said unto you be
circumspect: 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
- Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou
shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time
appointed of 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 firstfruits of thy labours,
which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in
the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the
field.
- 17
- Three items 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 sacrifice remain until the
morning.
- 19
- The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt
bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his
mother's milk.
- 20
- Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the
way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
- 21
- Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for
he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
- 22
- But if thou shalt indeed obey 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 Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites,
the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
- 24
- Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them,
nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite
break down their images.
- 25
- And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless
thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of
thee.
- 26
- There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in
thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
- 27
- I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy 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 hornets 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 beast 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 bounds from the Red sea even unto the
sea of the Philistines, and from the desert 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 if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto
thee.
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