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Exodus 23
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23"Don't pass on malicious gossip. "Don't link up with a wicked person and give corrupt testimony.H5375H7723H8088H7896H3027H7563H2555H5707 2Don't go along with the crowd in doing evil and don't fudge your testimony in a case just to please the crowd.H310H7227H7451H6030H7379H5186H310H7227H5186 3And just because someone is poor, don't show favoritism in a dispute.H1921H1800H7379 4"If you find your enemy's ox or donkey loose, take it back to him.H6293H341H7794H2543H8582H7725H7725H7725 5If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, don't walk off and leave it. Help it up.H7200H2543H8130H7257H4853H2308H5800H5800H5800 6"When there is a dispute concerning your poor, don't tamper with the justice due them.H5186H4941H34H7379 7"Stay clear of false accusations. Don't contribute to the death of innocent and good people. I don't let the wicked off the hook.H7368H8267H1697H5355H6662H2026H6663H7563 8"Don't take bribes. Bribes blind perfectly good eyes and twist the speech of good people.H3947H7810H7810H5786H6493H5557H1697H6662 9"Don't take advantage of a stranger. You know what it's like to be a stranger; you were strangers in Egypt.H3905H1616H3045H5315H1616H3588H1616H776H4714 10"Sow your land for six years and gather in its crops,H8337H8141H2232H776H622H8393 11but in the seventh year leave it alone and give it a rest so that your poor may eat from it. What they leave, let the wildlife have. Do the same with your vineyards and olive groves.H7637H8058H5203H34H5971H398H3499H2416H7704H398H6213H3754H2132 12"Work for six days and rest the seventh so your ox and donkey may rest and your servant and migrant workers may have time to get their needed rest.H8337H3117H6213H4639H7637H3117H7673H7794H2543H5117H1121H519H1616H5314 13"Listen carefully to everything I tell you. Don't pay attention to other gods—don't so much as mention their names.H559H8104H2142H8034H312H430H8085H5921H6310 14"Three times a year you are to hold a festival for me.H7969H7272H2287H8141 15"Hold the spring Festival of Unraised Bread when you eat unraised bread for seven days at the time set for the month of Abib, as I commanded you. That was the month you came out of Egypt. No one should show up before me empty-handed.H8104H2282H4682H398H4682H7651H3117H6680H4150H2320H24H3318H4714H7200H6440H7387 16"Hold the summer Festival of Harvest when you bring in the firstfruits of all your work in the fields. "Hold the autumn Festival of Ingathering at the end of the season when you bring in the year's crops.H2282H7105H1061H4639H2232H7704H2282H614H3318H8141H622H4639H7704 17"Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Master, GOD.H7969H6471H8141H2138H7200H6440H113H3068 18"Don't offer the blood of a sacrifice to me with anything that has yeast in it. "Don't leave the fat from my festival offering out overnight.H2076H1818H2077H2557H2459H2282H3885H1242 19"Bring the choice first produce of the year to the house of your GOD. "Don't boil a kid in its mother's milk.H7225H1061H127H935H1004H3068H430H1310H1423H517H2461 20"Now get yourselves ready. I'm sending my Angel ahead of you to guard you in your travels, to lead you to the place that I've prepared.H7971H4397H6440H8104H1870H935H4725H3559 21Pay close attention to him. Obey him. Don't go against him. He won't put up with your rebellions because he's acting on my authority.H8104H6440H8085H6963H4843H5375H6588H8034H7130 22But if you obey him and do everything I tell you, I'll be an enemy to your enemies, I'll fight those who fight you.H8085H8085H6963H6213H1696H340H341H6887H6696 23When my Angel goes ahead of you and leads you to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, I'll clear the country of them.H4397H3212H6440H935H567H2850H6522H3669H2340H2983H3582 24So don't worship or serve their gods; don't do anything they do because I'm going to wipe them right off the face of the Earth and smash their sacred phallic pillars to bits.H7812H430H5647H6213H4639H2040H2040H7665H7665H4676 25"But you—you serve your GOD and he'll bless your food and your water. I'll get rid of the sickness among you;H5647H3068H430H1288H3899H4325H5493H4245H5493H7130 26there won't be any miscarriages nor barren women in your land. I'll make sure you live full and complete lives.H7921H6135H776H4557H3117H4390 27"I'll send my Terror on ahead of you and throw those peoples you're approaching into a panic. All you'll see of your enemies is the backs of their necks.H7971H367H6440H2000H5971H935H5414H341H6203 28"And I'll send Despair on ahead of you. It will push the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites out of your way.H7971H6880H6440H1644H2340H3669H2850H6440 29I won't get rid of them all at once lest the land grow up in weeds and the wild animals take over.H1644H6440H259H8141H776H8077H2416H7704H7227 30Little by little I'll get them out of there while you have a chance to get your crops going and make the land your own.H4592H4592H1644H6440H6509H5157H776 31I will make your borders stretch from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and from the Wilderness to the Euphrates River. I'm turning everyone living in that land over to you; go ahead and drive them out.H7896H1366H5488H3220H3220H6430H4057H5104H5414H3427H776H3027H1644H6440 32"Don't make any deals with them or their gods.H3772H1285H430 33They are not to stay in the same country with you lest they get you to sin by worshiping their gods. Beware. That's a huge danger."H3427H776H2398H5647H430H4170


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