Exodus 23
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1 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:
3 Neither shalt thou countenance a
poor man in his cause.
4 If thou meet thine enemys 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.
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
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 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 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 mothers 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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