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| 23:1 |
"You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
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| 23:2 |
"You shall not follow a multitude in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert [justice];
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| 23:3 |
nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his dispute.
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| 23:4 |
"If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.
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| 23:5 |
"If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying [helpless] under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release [it] with him.
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| 23:6 |
"You shall not pervert the justice [due] to your needy [brother] in his dispute.
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| 23:7 |
"Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.
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| 23:8 |
"And you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just.
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| 23:9 |
"And you shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the feelings of a stranger, for you [also] were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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| 23:10 |
"And you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield,
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| 23:11 |
but [on] the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard [and] your olive grove.
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| 23:12 |
"Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease [from labor] in order that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as your stranger, may refresh themselves.
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| 23:13 |
"Now concerning everything which I have said to you, be on your guard; and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let [them] be heard from your mouth.
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| 23:14 |
"Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.
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| 23:15 |
"You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And none shall appear before Me empty-handed.
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| 23:16 |
"Also [you shall observe] the Feast of the Harvest [of] the first fruits of your labors [from] what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year when you gather in [the fruit of] your labors from the field.
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| 23:17 |
"Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.
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| 23:18 |
"You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning.
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| 23:19 |
"You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. You are not to boil a kid in the milk of its mother.
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| 23:20 |
"Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
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| 23:21 |
"Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since My name is in him.
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| 23:22 |
"But if you will truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
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| 23:23 |
"For My angel will go before you and bring you in to [the land of] the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them.
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| 23:24 |
"You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; but you shall utterly overthrow them, and break their [sacred] pillars in pieces.
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| 23:25 |
"But you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst.
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| 23:26 |
"There shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
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| 23:27 |
"I will send My terror ahead of you, and throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn [their] backs to you.
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| 23:28 |
"And I will send hornets ahead of you, that they may drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you.
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| 23:29 |
"I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate, and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.
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| 23:30 |
"I will drive them out before you little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land.
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| 23:31 |
"And I will fix your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River [Euphrates]; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
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| 23:32 |
"You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
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| 23:33 |
"They shall not live in your land, lest they make you sin against Me; for [if] you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."
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