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The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Exodus 23
1 “You shall not spread a false report.
Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be
a malicious witness.
2 “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil.
You shall not testify in court to side with a
multitude to pervert justice.
3 You shall not favor a poor man in his
cause.
4 “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his
donkey going astray, you shall surely bring
it back to him again.
5 If you see the donkey of him who hates
you fallen down under his burden, don’t
leave him. You shall surely help him with
it.
6 “You shall not deny justice to your poor
people in their lawsuits.
7 “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t
kill the innocent and righteous; for I will
not justify the wicked.
8 “You shall take no bribe, for a bribe
blinds those who have sight and perverts
the words of the righteous.
9 “You shall not oppress an alien, for you
know the heart of an alien, since you were
aliens in the land of Egypt.
10 “For six years you shall sow your land,
and shall gather in its increase,
11 but the seventh year you shall let it
rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your
people may eat; and what they leave the
animal of the field shall eat. In the sameway, you shall deal with your vineyard and
with your olive grove.
12 “Six days you shall do your work, and
on the seventh day you shall rest, that your
ox and your donkey may have rest, and the
son of your servant, and the alien may be
refreshed.
13 “Be careful to do all things that I have
said to you; and don’t invoke the name of
other gods or even let them be heard out
of your mouth.
14 “You shall observe a feast to me three
times a year.
15 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven
days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at
the time appointed in the month Abib (for
in it you came out of Egypt), and no one
shall appear before me empty.
16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits
of your labors, which you sow in the field;
and the feast of ingathering, at the end of
the year, when you gather in your labors
out of the field.
17 Three times in the year all your males
shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
18 “You shall not offer the blood of my
sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of
my feast shall not remain all night untilthe
morning.
19 You shall bring the first of the first
fruits of your ground into the house of
Yahweh your God.
“You shall not boil a young goat in its
mother’s milk.
20 “Behold, I send an angel before you, to
keep you by the way, and to bring you into
the place which I have prepared.
21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his
voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not
pardon your disobedience, for my name is
in him.
22 But if you indeed listen to his voice,
and do all that I speak, then I will be an
enemy to your enemies, and an adversary
to your adversaries.
23 For my angel shall go before you, and
bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the
Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and
the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
24 You shall not bow down to their gods,
nor serve them, nor follow their practices,
but you shall utterly overthrow them and
demolish their pillars.
25 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and
he will bless your bread and your water,
and I will take sickness away from among
you.
26 No one will miscarry or be barren in
your land. I will fulfill the number of your
days.
27 I will send my terror before you, and
will confuse all the people to whom you
come, and I will make all your enemies
turn their backs to you.
28 I will send the hornet before you,
which will drive out the Hivite, the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before
you.
29 I will not drive them out from before
you in one year, lest the land become desolate,
and the animals of the field multiply
against you.
30 Little by little I will drive them out
from before you, until you have increased
and inherit the land.
31 I will set your border from the Red
Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and
from the wilderness to the River; for I will
deliver the inhabitants of the land into
your hand, and you shall drive them out
before you.
32 You shall make no covenant with
them, nor with their gods.
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 snare to
you.”
Word English Bible
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