Exodus 23
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CHAPTER 23
1Thou shalt not receive a voice of leasing, thou shalt not raise thine hand, that is, make covenant, either promise, that thou say false witnessing for a wicked man.
2Thou shalt not follow a company to do evil, neither thou shalt assent to the sentence of full many men in doom, that thou go away from truth.
3Also thou shalt not have mercy of a poor man in a cause, or doom.
4If thou meetest thine enemy’s ox, either his ass, straying, lead it again to him.
5If thou seest that the ass of him that hateth thee lieth under a burden, thou shalt not pass by, but thou shalt raise up it with him.
6Thou shalt not bow [away] from truth in the doom of a poor man.
7Thou shalt flee leasing. Thou shalt not slay an innocent man, and just [or rightwise]; for I am adversary to a wicked man.
8Take thou not gifts, that blind, yea, prudent men, and destroy the words of just [or rightwise] men.
9Thou shalt not be dis-easeful of a pilgrim, for ye know the souls of comelings, for also ye were pilgrims in the land of Egypt.
10Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and thou shalt gather [the] fruits thereof;
11forsooth in the seventh year thou shalt leave it, and make it to rest, that the poor men of thy people eat, and whatever is left ungathered, the beasts of the field eat it; so thou shalt do in thy vinery [or vineyard], and in the place of thine olive trees.
12Six days thou shalt work, and in the seventh day thou shalt cease, that thine ox, and thine ass rest, and the son of thine handmaid, and the comeling be refreshed.
13Keep ye all things, which I [have] said to you; and ye shall not swear by the name of alien gods, neither it shall be heard of your mouth.
14In three times by all years ye shall hallow feasts to me.
15Thou shalt keep the solemnity of therf loaves; seven days thou shalt eat therf bread, as I commanded to thee, in the time of [the] month of new things, when thou wentest out of Egypt; thou shalt not appear void in my sight.
16And thou shalt keep the solemnity of the month of the first things of thy works#23:16 Also known as the Feast of the Harvest, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of the First Fruits., whatever things thou hast sown in the field. Also thou shalt keep the solemnity in the going out of the year#23:16 Also known as the Feast of Tabernacles, the Feast of Booths, the Feast of Shelters, and the Feast of Ingathering., when thou hast gathered all thy fruits of the field.
17Thrice in the year all thy male kind shall appear before thy Lord God.
18Thou shalt not offer the blood of thy slain sacrifice on sourdough; neither the fatness of my solemnity shall dwell till to the morrowtide.
19Thou shalt bear the first things of the fruits of thy land into the house of thy Lord God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in the milk of his mother.
20Lo! I send mine angel, that shall go before thee, and shall keep thee in the way, and shall lead thee to the place which I have made ready to thee.
21Take thou heed to him, and hear thou his voice, neither guess thou him to be despised, or despisable; for he shall not forgive, when thou sinnest, and my name is in him.
22For if thou hearest his voice, and doest all things which I speak, I shall be enemy to thine enemies, and I shall torment them, that torment thee;
23and mine angel shall go before thee, and he shall lead in thee to Amorites, and Hittites, and Perizzites, and Canaanites, and Hivites, and Jebus-ites, which I shall break, or destroy.
24Thou shalt not honour the gods of them, neither thou shalt worship them; thou shalt not do the works of them, but thou shalt destroy their gods, and thou shalt break the images of them.
25And ye shall serve to your Lord God, that I bless thy loaves, and thy waters, and do away sickness from the midst of thee;
26neither a woman unfruitful, neither barren, shall be in thy land; I shall fulfill the number of thy days.
27I shall send my dread into thy before-going, and I shall slay all the people, to which thou shalt enter, and I shall turn the backs of all thine enemies before thee;
28and I shall send out before thee crabrones, or stinging flies, that shall drive away Hivite, and Canaanite, and Hittite, before that thou enter.
29I shall not cast them out from thy face in one year, lest the land be turned into wilderness, and beasts increase against thee;
30little and little I shall cast them out from thy sight, till thou be increased, and wield the land.
31Forsooth and I shall set thy terms from the Red Sea till to the sea of Palestines, and from the desert till to the flood. I shall give into your hands the dwellers of the land, and I shall cast them out from your sight;
32thou shalt not make bond of peace with them, neither with their gods.
33Dwell they not in thy land, lest peradventure they make thee to do sin against me; if thou servest their gods, which thing certainly shall be to thee into cause of stumbling.
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Exodus 23
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Ex 20.16; 23.7; Deut 5.20; 19.15-21. “You shall not utter a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man, to be a malicious witness. 2You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; nor shall you bear witness in a suit, turning aside after a multitude, so as to pervert justice; 3#Lev 19.15. nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his suit.
4“If you meet your enemy's ox or his ass going astray, you shall bring it back to him. 5If you see the ass of one who hates you lying under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it, you shall help him to lift it up.#23.5 Gk: Heb obscure
6“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his suit. 7#Ex 20.16; 23.1. Keep far from a false charge, and do not slay the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. 8#Deut 16.19. And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials, and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
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Ex 22.21; Lev 19.33,34; Deut 27.19. “You shall not oppress a stranger; you know the heart of a stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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Lev 25.1-7. “For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; 11but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild beasts may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.
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Ex 20.8-11; 31.15-17; 34.21; 35.2; Deut 5.12-15. “Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your ass may have rest, and the son of your bondmaid, and the alien, may be refreshed. 13Take heed to all that I have said to you; and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let such be heard out of your mouth.
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Ex 34.22-24; Lev 23.1-44; Deut 16.1-17. “Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. 15You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread; as I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed. 16You shall keep the feast of harvest, of the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the feast of ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. 17Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.
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Ex 12.10; 34.25; Lev 2.11; 7.15. “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.
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Ex 22.29; 34.26; Deut 26.2-11; 14.21. “The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.
“You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
20“Behold, I send an angel before you, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place which I have prepared. 21Give heed to him and hearken to his voice, do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression; for my name is in him.
22“But if you hearken attentively to his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
23“When my angel goes before you, and brings you in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, 24you shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces. 25You shall serve the Lord your God, and I#23.25 Gk Vg: Heb he will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you. 26None shall cast her young or be barren in your land; I will fulfil the number of your days. 27I will send my terror before you, and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out Hivite, Canaanite, and Hittite from before you. 29I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you. 30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you are increased and possess the land. 31And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. 32You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods. 33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
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