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Exodus 23 📜 📕 ↷
Justice and Mercy
1 THOU shalt not admit a lying voice: neither shalt thou join thy hand to say false testimony for a wicked person.📜💬📚
2 Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou in judgement agree to the sentence of the most part, to stray from the truth.📜💬📚
3 The poor man also thou shalt not pity in judgment.📜💬📚
4 If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him.📜💬📚
5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his burden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with the same.📜💬📚
6 Thou shalt not decline the poor man's judgment.📜💬📚
7 A lie thou shalt avoid. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the impious man.📜💬📚
8 Neither shalt thou take bribes, which do blind also the wise, and pervert the words of the just.📜💬📚
9 The stranger thou shalt not molest, for you know the hearts of strangers: because your selves also were strangers in the Land of AEgypt.📜💬📚
Sabbath Laws
10 Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn thereof.📜💬📚
11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and make it to rest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and whatsoever shall be left, let the beasts of the field eat it: so shalt thou do in thy vineyard and thy olivet.📜💬📚
12 Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt cease, that thy ox may rest and thine ass: and the son of thy handmaid may be refreshed, and the stranger.📜💬📚
13 Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of foreign gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your mouth.📜💬📚
Three Feasts of Pilgrimage
14 Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.📜💬📚
15 Thou shalt keep the solemnity of Azymes. Seven days shalt thou eat azymes, as I commanded thee, in time of the month of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of AEgypt: thou shalt not appear in my sight empty.📜💬📚
16 And the solemnity of the harvest of the first fruits of thy work, whatsoever thou didst sow in the field. The solemnity also in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered all thy corn out of the field.📜💬📚
17 Thrice a year shall all thy male sex appear before the Lord thy God.📜💬📚
18 Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven, neither shall the fat of the solemnity remain until the morning.📜💬📚
19 The first fruits of the corn of thy ground thou shalt carry into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.📜💬📚
God's Angel to Lead
20 Behold I will send mine Angel, which shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have prepared.📜💬📚
21 Observe him, and hear his voice, neither do thou think him one to be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my name is in him.📜💬📚
22 But if thou wilt hear his voice, and do all that I speak, I will be enemy to thine enemies, & will afflict them that afflict thee.📜💬📚
23 And mine Angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto the Amorrheite, and Hetheite, & Pherezeite, and Chanaaneite, and Heveite, & Jebuzeite, whom I will destroy.📜💬📚
24 Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues.📜💬📚
25 And you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless your bread & waters, and may take away infirmity from the midst of thee.📜💬📚
26 There shall not be a fruitless nor barren body in thy land: I will fill the number of thy days.📜💬📚
27 I will send my terror to run before thee, and will kill all people, to whom thou shalt enter: and will turn the backs of all thine enemies before thee:📜💬📚
28 sending forth hornets before, that shall chase away the Heveite, and Chanaaneite, & Hetheite, before thou enter.📜💬📚
29 I will not cast them out from thy face in one year: lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and beasts increase against thee.📜💬📚
30 By little and little I will expel them from thy sight, till thou be increased, and dost possess the Land.📜💬📚
31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea unto the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert unto the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the Land in your hands, and will cast them out from your sight.📜💬📚
32 Thou shalt not enter league with them, nor with their gods.📜💬📚
33 Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps they make thee to sin against me, if thou serve their gods: which undoubtedly will be a scandal to thee.📜💬📚
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