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Chapter 23 | |
1 | Thou 
shalt not raise a 1false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an 
unrighteous witness.
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2 | Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:  | 
 
3 | Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.  | 
4 | If thou meet 
thine enemy's 1ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to 
him again.
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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.  | 
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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.  | 
 
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 1send 
an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place 
which I have prepared.
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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 | 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.  | 
 
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.  | 
 
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 1fear 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.
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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.  | 
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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 | 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.  | 
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