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Exodus, Chapter 23

¹ “You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. ² You shall not follow^a Lit many menthe masses in doing evil, nor shall you^b Or answertestify in a dispute so as to turn aside after^c Lit many mena multitude in order to pervert justice; ³ nor shall you^d Lit honorbe partial to a poor man in his dispute.	1 Exo 20:16 Lev 19:11 Deu 5:20 Psa 101:5 Pro 10:18 Deu 19:16-21 Psa 35:11 Pro 19:5 Act 6:11 2 Deu 16:19 Deu 24:17 3 Exo 23:6 Lev 19:15 Deu 1:17 Deu 16:19
⁴ “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him. ⁵ If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him.	4 Deu 22:1-4 5 Deu 22:4
⁶ “You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute. ⁷ Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.	6 Exo 23:2 Exo 23:3 Lev 19:15 7 Exo 20:16 Psa 119:29 Eph 4:25 Exo 20:13 Deu 27:25 Exo 34:7 Deu 25:1 Rom 1:18
⁸ “You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and^e Or distorts the wordssubverts the cause of the just.	8 Deu 10:17 Deu 16:19 Pro 15:27 Pro 17:8 Pro 17:23 Isa 5:22 Isa 5:23
⁹ “You shall not oppress a^f Or sojourner(s)stranger, since you yourselves know the^g Lit soulfeelings of a^h Or sojourner(s)stranger, for you also wereⁱ Or sojourner(s)strangers in the land of Egypt.	9 Exo 22:21 Lev 19:33 Deu 24:17 Deu 27:19
¹⁰ “You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield, ¹¹ but on the seventh year you shall let it^j Lit droprest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.	10 Lev 25:1-7
¹² “Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as^k Lit the sojourneryour stranger, may refresh themselves. ¹³ Now concerning everything which I have said to you, be on your guard; and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard^l Lit onfrom your mouth.	12 Exo 20:8-11 Exo 31:15 Exo 34:21 Exo 35:2 Exo 35:3 Lev 23:3 Deu 5:13 13 Deu 4:9 Deu 4:23 Ti1 4:16 Jos 23:7 Psa 16:4 Hos 2:17
¹⁴ “Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. ¹⁵ You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And^m Lit they...notnone shall appear before Me empty-handed. ¹⁶ Also you shall observe the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field. ¹⁷ Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lordⁿ Heb YHWH, usually rendered LordGOD.	14 Exo 23:17 Exo 34:22-24 Deu 16:16 15 Exo 12:14-20 Lev 23:6-8 Num 28:16-25 Exo 12:2 Exo 13:4 Exo 22:29 Exo 34:20 16 Exo 34:22 Lev 23:10 Num 28:26 Lev 23:39 17 Exo 23:14 Exo 34:23 Deu 16:16
¹⁸ “You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My^o Or festivalfeast to remain overnight until morning.	18 Exo 34:25 Lev 2:11 Exo 12:10 Lev 7:15 Deu 16:4
¹⁹ “You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. “You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.	19 Exo 22:29 Exo 34:26 Deu 26:2 Deu 26:10 Neh 10:35 Pro 3:9 Deu 14:21
²⁰ “Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. ²¹ Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since My name is in him. ²² But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. ²³ For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them. ²⁴ You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their sacred pillars in pieces. ²⁵ But you shall serve the LORD your God,^p Or that He may blessand He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst. ²⁶ There shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. ²⁷ I will send My terror ahead of you, and throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. ²⁸ I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you. ²⁹ I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. ³⁰ I will drive them out before you little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land. ³¹ I will fix your boundary from the^q Lit Sea of ReedsRed Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you. ³² You shall^r Lit cutmake no covenant with them or with their gods. ³³ They shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”	20 Exo 3:2 Exo 14:19 Exo 23:23 Exo 32:34 Exo 33:2 Exo 15:16 Exo 15:17 21 Deu 9:7 Psa 78:40 Psa 78:56 Exo 3:14 Exo 6:3 Exo 34:5-7 22 Gen 12:3 Num 24:9 Deu 30:7 23 Exo 23:20 Jos 24:8 Jos 24:11 24 Exo 20:5 Exo 23:13 Exo 23:33 Deu 12:30 Num 33:52 Deu 7:5 Deu 12:3 Ki2 18:4 Exo 34:13 Lev 26:1 Ki2 3:2 25 Lev 26:3-13 Deu 6:13 Deu 10:12 Deu 28:1-14 Jos 22:5 Sa1 12:20 Mat 4:10 Exo 15:26 Deu 7:15 26 Deu 7:14 Deu 4:40 Job 5:26 27 Gen 35:5 Exo 15:16 Deu 2:25 Jos 2:9 Deu 7:23 Psa 18:40 Psa 21:12 28 Deu 7:20 Jos 24:12 Exo 33:2 Exo 34:11 29 Deu 7:22 30 Deu 7:22 31 Gen 15:18 Deu 1:7 Deu 1:8 Deu 11:24 Deu 2:36 Jos 21:44 Jos 24:12 Jos 24:18 32 Exo 34:12 Deu 7:2 Exo 23:13 Exo 23:24 33 Deu 7:1-5 Deu 7:16 Exo 34:12 Deu 12:30 Jos 23:13 Jdg 2:3 Psa 106:36


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