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Chapter 23 |
| 1 | Thou shalt not
raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous
witness. |
| 2
| Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither
shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: |
| 3 |
Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. |
| 4 | If thou meet
thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to
him again. |
| 5
| If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under
his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with
him. |
| 6 |
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his
cause. |
| 7 |
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and
righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. |
| 8 | And thou
shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of
the righteous. |
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9 | Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know
the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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| 10 | And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits
thereof: |
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| But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie
still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of
the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with
thy oliveyard. |
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12 | Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh
day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy
handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. |
| 13 | And in all
things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the
name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. |
| 14 |
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. |
| 15 | Thou
shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread
seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for
in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
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| 16 | And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labors, which thou hast
sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the
year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field. |
| 17 |
Three items in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.
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| 18 | Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread;
neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. |
| 19 | The
first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the
LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. |
| 20 |
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee
into the place which I have prepared. |
| 21 | Beware of him, and obey his
voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name
is in him. |
| 22
| But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that
I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto
thine adversaries. |
| 23 | For mine Angel shall go before thee, and
bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the
Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. |
| 24 |
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their
works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their
images. |
| 25
| And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless
thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of
thee. |
| 26 |
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy
land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. |
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27 | I will send my fear
before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I
will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. |
| 28 | And I will
send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and
the Hittite, from before thee. |
| 29 | I will not drive them out
from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of
the field multiply against thee. |
| 30 | By little and little I will
drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the
land. |
| 31 |
And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea
of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the
inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before
thee. |
| 32 |
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their
gods. |
| 33 |
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin
against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto
thee. |
