| 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: |
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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. |
| 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. |
|
10 | And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt
gather in the fruits thereof: |
| 11
| 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. |
| 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:) |
| 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. |
| 18 | Thou shalt not offer the
blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my
sacrifice remain until the morning. |
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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. |
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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. |
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26 | There shall nothing cast their young, nor be
barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. |
| 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. |
