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& "You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

& ~"You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert {justice;}

Exo 23:3

& nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his dispute.

Exo 23:4

& "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.

Exo 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.

Exo 23:6

& "You shall not pervert the justice {due} to your needy {brother} in his dispute.

Exo 23:7

& ~"Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.

Exo 23:8

& "You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just.

Exo 23:9

& "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.

Exo 23:10

& "You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield,

Exo 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.

Exo 23:12

& "Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease {from labor} so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as your stranger, may refresh themselves.

Exo 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.

Exo 23:14

& "Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.

Exo 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.

Exo 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.

Exo 23:17

& ~"Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

Exo 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.

Exo 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 young goat in the milk of its mother.

Exo 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.

Exo 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.

Exo 23:22

& ~"But if you 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.

Exo 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.

Exo 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.

Exo 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.

Exo 23:26

& ~"There shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.

Exo 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.

Exo 23:28

& ~"I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you.

Exo 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.

Exo 23:30

& ~"I will drive them out before you little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land.

Exo 23:31

& ~"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.

Exo 23:32

& ~"You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

Exo 23:33

& ~"They shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me; for {if} you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."