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Chapter 23
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Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand
with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. |
2
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Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither
shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest
judgment: |
3
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Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. |
4
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If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray,
thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. |
5
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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
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Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his
cause. |
7
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Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and
righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. |
8
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And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the
wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. |
9
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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
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And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather
in the fruits thereof: |
11
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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. |
12
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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
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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
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Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. |
15
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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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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. |
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Three items in the year all thy males shall appear before
the LORD God. |
18
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Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened
bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until
the morning. |
19
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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
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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
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Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for
he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is
in him. |
22
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren,
in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. |
27
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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
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And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive
out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before
thee. |
29
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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
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By little and little I will drive them out from before
thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. |
31
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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
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Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their
gods. |
33
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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. |
