Exod 23
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You shall not take up a false report: put not your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous
witness.
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You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to
turn aside after a multitude to wrest [justice]:
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neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.
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If you meet your enemy`s ox or his ass going astray, you shall surely bring it back
to him again.
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If you see the ass of him whom hates you lying under his burden, you shall forbear
to leave him, you shall surely release [it] with him.
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You shall not wrest the justice [due] to your poor in his cause.
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Keep you far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay you not: for
I will not justify the wicked.
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And you shall take no bribe: for a bribe blinds them that have sight, and perverts
the words of the righteous.
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And a sojourner shall you not oppress: for you know the heart of a sojourner, seeing
you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
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And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase:
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but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of your people
may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner you
shall deal with your vineyard, [and] with your oliveyard.
12
Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest; that your
ox and your ass may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the sojourner, may
be refreshed.
13
And in all things that I have said to you take you heed: and make no mention of the
name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth.
14
Three times you shall keep a feast to me in the year.
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The feast of unleavened bread shall you keep: seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you
came out from Egypt); and none shall appear before me empty:
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and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field:
and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors
out of the field.
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Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord YHWH.
18
You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the
fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.
19
The first of the first-fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of YHWH
your God. You shall not boil a kid in it mother`s milk.
20
Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into
the place which I have prepared.
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Take you heed before him, and hearken to his voice; provoke him not; for he will not
pardon your transgression: for my name is in him.
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But if you shall indeed hearken to his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will
be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
23
For mine angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, and the Hittite,
and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: and I will cut
them off.
24
You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but
you shall utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.
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And you shall serve YHWH your God, and he will bless your bread, and your water; and
I will take sickness away from the midst of you.
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There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in your land: the number of your days
I will fulfill.
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I will send my terror before you, and will discomfit all the people to whom you shall
come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
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And I will send the hornet before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite,
and the Hittite, from before you.
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I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate,
and the beasts of the field multiply against you.
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By little and little I will drive them out from before you, until you be increased,
and inherit the land.
31
And I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and
from the wilderness to the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into
your hand: and you shall drive them out before you.
32
You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
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They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve
their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.