23Exodus 23

1Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.Select Exodus 23:1

2Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]:Select Exodus 23:2

3Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.Select Exodus 23:3

4If thou shalt meet thy enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.Select Exodus 23:4

5If thou shalt see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.Select Exodus 23:5

6Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.Select Exodus 23:6

7Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.Select Exodus 23:7

8And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.Select Exodus 23:8

9Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.Select Exodus 23:9

10And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:Select Exodus 23:10

11But 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 olive-yard.Select Exodus 23:11

12Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thy ox and thy ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.Select Exodus 23:12

13And in all [things] that I have said to you be circumspect: and make no mention of the names of other gods, neither let it be heard from thy mouth.Select Exodus 23:13

14Three times thou shalt keep a feast to me in the year.Select Exodus 23:14

15Thou 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:)Select Exodus 23:15

16And the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of in-gathering, [which] is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field.Select Exodus 23:16

17Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.Select Exodus 23:17

18Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.Select Exodus 23:18

19The first of the first-fruits 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.Select Exodus 23:19

20Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.Select Exodus 23:20

21Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name [is] in him.Select Exodus 23:21

22But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and an adversary to thy adversaries.Select Exodus 23:22

23For my Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, [and] the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.Select Exodus 23:23

24Thou 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.Select Exodus 23:24

25And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.Select Exodus 23:25

26There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: I will complete the number of thy days.Select Exodus 23:26

27I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thy enemies turn their backs to thee.Select Exodus 23:27

28And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee.Select Exodus 23:28

29I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land should become desolate, and the beast of the field should multiply against thee.Select Exodus 23:29

30By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou shalt be increased and inherit the land.Select Exodus 23:30

31And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.Select Exodus 23:31

32Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.Select Exodus 23:32

33They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee to sin against me: for if thou shalt serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to thee.Select Exodus 23:33