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Exodus 23
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23"You must not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked to be a malicious witness.H5375H7723H8088H7896H3027H7563H2555H5707
2"You must not follow a crowd in wrongdoing. Do not testify in a lawsuit and go along with a crowd to pervert [justice].H310H7227H7451H6030H7379H5186H310H7227H5186
3Do not show favoritism to a poor person in his lawsuit.H1921H1800H7379
4"If you come across your enemy's stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.H6293H341H7794H2543H8582H7725H7725H7725
5"If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying [helpless] under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it.H7200H2543H8130H7257H4853H2308H5800H5800H5800
6"You must not deny justice to the poor among you in his lawsuit.H5186H4941H34H7379
7Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent and the just, because I will not justify the guilty.H7368H8267H1697H5355H6662H2026H6663H7563
8You must not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words of the righteous.H3947H7810H7810H5786H6493H5557H1697H6662
9You must not oppress a foreign resident; you yourselves know how it feels to be a foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.H3905H1616H3045H5315H1616H3588H1616H776H4714
10"Sow your land for six years and gather its produce.H8337H8141H2232H776H622H8393
11But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it uncultivated, so that the poor among your people may eat [from it] and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.H7637H8058H5203H34H5971H398H3499H2416H7704H398H6213H3754H2132
12"Do your work for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the foreign resident may be refreshed.H8337H3117H6213H4639H7637H3117H7673H7794H2543H5117H1121H519H1616H5314
13"Pay strict attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.H559H8104H2142H8034H312H430H8085H5921H6310
14"Celebrate a festival in My honor three times a year.H7969H7272H2287H8141
15Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, because you came out of Egypt in that month. No one is to appear before Me empty-handed.H8104H2282H4682H398H4682H7651H3117H6680H4150H2320H24H3318H4714H7200H6440H7387
16Also [observe] the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of your produce from what you sow in the field, and [observe] the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.H2282H7105H1061H4639H2232H7704H2282H614H3318H8141H622H4639H7704
17Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God.H7969H6471H8141H2138H7200H6440H113H3068
18"You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened. The fat of My festival offering must not remain until morning.H2076H1818H2077H2557H2459H2282H3885H1242
19"Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the LORD your God. "You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.H7225H1061H127H935H1004H3068H430H1310H1423H517H2461
20"I am going to send an Angel before you to protect you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared.H7971H4397H6440H8104H1870H935H4725H3559
21Be attentive to Him and listen to His voice. Do not defy Him, because He will not forgive your acts of rebellion, for My name is in Him.H8104H6440H8085H6963H4843H5375H6588H8034H7130
22But if you will carefully obey Him and do everything I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.H8085H8085H6963H6213H1696H340H341H6887H6696
23For My Angel will go before you and bring you to [the land of] the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.H4397H3212H6440H935H567H2850H6522H3669H2340H2983H3582
24You must not bow down to their gods or worship them. Do not imitate their practices. Instead, demolish them and smash their sacred pillars to pieces.H7812H430H5647H6213H4639H2040H2040H7665H7665H4676
25Worship the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. I will take away your illnesses.H5647H3068H430H1288H3899H4325H5493H4245H5493H7130
26No woman will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give [you] the full number of your days.H7921H6135H776H4557H3117H4390
27"I will cause the people ahead of you to feel terror and throw into confusion all the nations you come to. I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you in retreat.H7971H367H6440H2000H5971H935H5414H341H6203
28I will send the hornet in front of you, and it will drive the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites away from you.H7971H6880H6440H1644H2340H3669H2850H6440
29I will not drive them out ahead of you in a single year; otherwise, the land would become desolate, and wild animals would multiply against you.H1644H6440H259H8141H776H8077H2416H7704H7227
30I will drive them out little by little ahead of you until you have become numerous and take possession of the land.H4592H4592H1644H6440H6509H5157H776
31I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. For I will place the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you will drive them out ahead of you.H7896H1366H5488H3220H3220H6430H4057H5104H5414H3427H776H3027H1644H6440
32You must not make a covenant with them or their gods.H3772H1285H430
33They must not remain in your land, or else they will make you sin against Me. If you worship their gods, it will be a snare for you."H3427H776H2398H5647H430H4170


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