Exodus 23
EX 23:1 `Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a
wicked man to be a violent witness.
EX 23:2 `Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a
strife, to turn aside after many to cause `others' to turn aside;
EX 23:3 and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.
EX 23:4 `When thou meetest thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou dost
certainly turn it back to him;
EX 23:5 when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its
burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving `it' to it -- thou dost certainly
leave `it' with him.
EX 23:6 `Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;
EX 23:7 from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and
righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.
EX 23:8 `And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open-`eyed',
and perverteth the words of the righteous.
EX 23:9 `And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye -- ye have known the soul
of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.
EX 23:10 `And six years thou dost sow thy land, and hast gathered its increase;
EX 23:11 and the seventh thou dost release it, and hast left it, and the needy
of thy people have eaten, and their leaving doth the beast of the field eat; so
dost thou to thy vineyard -- to thine olive-yard.
EX 23:12 `Six days thou dost do thy work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest,
so that thine ox and thine ass doth rest, and the son of thine handmaid and the
sojourner is refreshed;
EX 23:13 and in all that which I have said unto you ye do take heed; and the
name of other gods ye do not mention; it is not heard on thy mouth.
EX 23:14 `Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year;
EX 23:15 the Feast of Unleavened things thou dost keep; seven days thou dost eat
unleavened things, as I have commanded thee, at the time appointed `in' the
month of Abib; for in it thou hast come forth out of Egypt, and ye do not appear
`in' My presence empty;
EX 23:16 and the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of thy works which thou
sowest in the field; and the Feast of the In-Gathering, in the outgoing of the
year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field.
EX 23:17 `Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the face of the
Lord Jehovah.
EX 23:18 `Thou dost not sacrifice on a fermented thing the blood of My
sacrifice, and the fat of My festival doth not remain till morning;
EX 23:19 the beginning of the first-fruits of thy ground thou dost bring into
the house of Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
EX 23:20 `Lo, I am sending a messenger before thee to keep thee in the way, and
to bring thee in unto the place which I have prepared;
EX 23:21 be watchful because of his presence, and hearken to his voice, rebel
not against him, for he beareth not with your transgression, for My name `is' in
his heart;
EX 23:22 for, if thou diligently hearken to his voice, and hast done all that
which I speak, then I have been at enmity with thine enemies, and have
distressed those distressing thee.
EX 23:23 `For My messenger goeth before thee, and hath brought thee in unto the
Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and
the Jebusite, and I have cut them off.
EX 23:24 `Thou dost not bow thyself to their gods, nor serve them, nor do
according to their doings, but dost utterly devote them, and thoroughly break
their standing pillars.
EX 23:25 `And ye have served Jehovah your God, and He hath blessed thy bread and
thy water, and I have turned aside sickness from thine heart;
EX 23:26 there is not a miscarrying and barren one in thy land; the number of
thy days I fulfil:
EX 23:27 My terror I send before thee, and I have put to death all the people
among whom thou comest, and I have given the neck of all thine enemies unto
thee.
EX 23:28 `And I have sent the hornet before thee, and it hath cast out the
Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee;
EX 23:29 I cast them not out from before thee in one year, lest the land be a
desolation, and the beast of the field hath multiplied against thee;
EX 23:30 little `by' little I cast them out from before thee, till thou art
fruitful, and hast inherited the land.
EX 23:31 `And I have set thy border from the Red Sea, even unto the sea of the
Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I give into your hand
the inhabitants of the land, and thou hast cast them out from before thee;
EX 23:32 thou dost not make a covenant with them, and with their gods;
EX 23:33 they do not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against Me
when thou servest their gods, when it becometh a snare to thee.'
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