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Exodus 23
Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt
thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked
person.
Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither
shalt thou yield in judgment, to the opinion of the
most part, to stray from the truth.
Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment.
If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring
it back to him.
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 him.
Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.
Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou
shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.
Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the
wise, and pervert the words of the just.
Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts
of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land
of Egypt.
Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather
the corn thereof.
But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer
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 with thy vineyard and thy oliveyard.
Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt
cease, that thy ox and thy ass may rest: and the son
of thy handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed.
Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the
name of strange gods you shall not swear, neither shall
it be heard out of your mouth.
Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to
me.
Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven
days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded
thee, in the time of the month of new corn, when thou
didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear
empty before me.
And the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy
work, whatsoever thou hast sown in the field. The feast
also in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered
in all thy corn out of the field.
Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the
Lord thy God.
Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon
leaven, neither shall the fat of my solemnity remain
until the morning.
Thou shalt carry the firstfruits of the corn of thy
ground to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt
not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.
Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee,
and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the
place that I have prepared.
Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think
him one to be contemned: for he will not forgive when
thou hast sinned, and my name is in him.
But if thou wilt hear his voice, and do all that I speak,
I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict
them that afflict thee.
And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee
in unto the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite,
and the Chanaanite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite,
whom I will destroy.
Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou
shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and
break their statues.
And you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless
your bread and your waters, and may take away sickness
from the midst of thee.
There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land:
I will fill the number of thy days.
I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all
the people to whom thou shalt come: and will turn the
backs of all thy enemies before thee.
Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the
Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before
thou come in.
I will not cast them out from thy face in one year:
lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the
beasts multiply against thee.
By little and little I will drive them out from before
thee, till thou be increased, and dost possess the land.
And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea
of the Palestines, and from the desert to the river:
I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your
hands, and will drive them out from before you.
Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with
their gods.
Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps thy make
thee sin against me, if thou serve their god: which
undoubtedly will be a scandal to thee. |