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| | Exd 23:1 | Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
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| | Exd 23:2 | Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
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| | Exd 23:3 | Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
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| | Exd 23:4 | If thou shalt meet thy enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
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| | Exd 23:5 | If 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.
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| | Exd 23:6 | Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
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| | Exd 23:7 | Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
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| | Exd 23:8 | And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
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| | Exd 23:9 | Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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| | Exd 23:10 | And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
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| | Exd 23:11 | 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 olive-yard.
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| | Exd 23:12 | Six 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.
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| | Exd 23:13 | And 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.
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| | Exd 23:14 | Three times thou shalt keep a feast to me in the year.
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| | Exd 23:15 | 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:)
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| | Exd 23:16 | And 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.
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| | Exd 23:17 | Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
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| | Exd 23:18 | Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
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| | Exd 23:19 | The 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.
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| | Exd 23:20 | Behold, I send 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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| | Exd 23:21 | Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
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| | Exd 23:22 | But 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.
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| | Exd 23:23 | For 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.
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| | Exd 23:24 | 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.
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| | Exd 23:25 | And 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.
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| | Exd 23:26 | There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: I will complete the number of thy days.
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| | Exd 23:27 | I 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.
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| | Exd 23:28 | And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee.
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| | Exd 23:29 | I 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.
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| | Exd 23:30 | By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou shalt be increased and inherit the land.
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| | Exd 23:31 | And 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.
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| | Exd 23:32 | Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
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| | Exd 23:33 | They 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.
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