Exodus Chapter 23

Exodus Chapter 23
1 Thou shalt not receive a false tale,
neither shalt thou put thine hand with the
wicked, to be a false witness.
2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do
evil, neither agree in a controversy to
decline after many and overthrow the
truth.
3 Thou shalt not esteem a poor man in
his cause.
4 If thou meet thine enemy’s ox, or his
ass going astray, thou shalt bring him to
him again.
5 If thou see thine enemy’s ass lying
under his burden, wilt thou cease to help
him? Thou shalt help him up again with
it.
6 Thou shalt not overthrow the right of
thy poor in his suit.
7 Thou shalt keep thee far from a false
matter, and shalt not slay the innocent
and the righteous: for I will not justify a
wicked man.
8 Thou shalt take no gift: for the gift
blindeth the wise, and perverteth the
words of the righteous.
9 Thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for
ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing
ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
10 Moreover, six years thou shalt sow
thy land, and gather 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 do with thy vineyard, and with
thine olive trees. 12 Six days thou shalt
do thy work, and in the seventh day thou
shalt rest, that thine ox, and thine ass
may rest, and the son of thy maid and the
stranger may be refreshed.
13 And ye shall take heed to all things
that I have said unto you: and ye shall
make no mention of the name of other
gods, neither shall 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 season of the
month of Abib: for in it thou camest out
of Egypt: and none shall appear before
me empty: 16 The feast also of the
harvest of the first fruits of thy labors,
which thou hast sown in the field: and
the feast of gathering fruits in the end of
the year, when thou hast gathered in thy
labors out of the field.
17 These three times in the year shall all
thy men children appear before the Lord
Jehovah.
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 first fruits of thy land
thou shalt bring into the house of the
Lord thy God: yet shalt thou 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 to the place
which I have prepared.
21 Beware of him, and hear his voice,
and provoke him not: for he will not
spare your misdeeds, because my name
is in him.
22 But if thou hearken unto his voice,
and do all that I speak, then I will be an
enemy unto thine enemies, and will
afflict them that afflict thee. 23 For mine
angel shall go before thee, and bring thee
unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and
the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the
Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will
destroy them.
24 Thou shalt not bow down to their
gods, neither serve them, nor do after the
works of them: but utterly overthrow
them, and break in pieces their images.
25 For ye shall serve the Lord your God,
and he shall bless thy bread and thy
water, and I will take all sickness away
from the midst of thee. 26 There shall
none cast their fruit nor be barren in thy
land: the number of thy days will I
fulfill.
27 I will send my fear before thee, and
will destroy all the people among whom
thou shalt go: 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 Hivites, the
Canaanites, and the Hittites from thy
face.
29 I will not cast them out from thy face
in one year, lest the land grow to a
wilderness: and the beasts of the field
multiply against thee.
30 By little and little I will drive them
out from thy face until thou increase, and
inherit the land.
31 And I will make thy coasts from the
Red Sea 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 from thy face. 32 Thou shalt make no
covenant with them, nor with their gods:
33 Neither shall they dwell in thy land,
lest they make thee sin against me: for if
thou serve their gods, surely it shall be
thy destruction.