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Exodus 23 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:2 - “You shall not follow [fn]the masses in doing evil, nor shall you [fn]testify in a case so as to turn aside after [fn]the masses in order to [fn]cause justice to be turned aside;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:3 - nor shall you [fn]be partial to a poor man in his case.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 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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“You shall not cause the justice due to your needy brother to be turned aside in his case.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:7 - “Keep far from a [fn]false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not justify the guilty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:8

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“And you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and [fn]subverts the cause of the [fn]just.

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“And you shall not oppress a sojourner, since you yourselves know the soul of a sojourner, for you also were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Judgments About Work and Rest

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“Now you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its produce,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11 - but on the seventh year you shall let it [fn]rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. Thus you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

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“Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall [fn]rest so that your ox and your donkey may [fn]rest, and the son of your maidservant, as well as your sojourner, may refresh themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:13 - “Now concerning everything which I have said to you, beware; and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard [fn]from your mouth.

Judgments About National Feasts

(Exo 34:18–26; Deu 16:1–17 )

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“Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:15 - “You shall keep 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 [fn]none shall appear before Me empty-handed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:16 - “Also you shall keep 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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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:17 - “Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

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“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My [fn]feast to remain overnight until morning.

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“You shall bring the choice first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God.

“You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

Yahweh Will Drive Out Israel’s Enemies

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“Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to keep you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:21 - “Keep watch of yourself before him and listen to 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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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:22 - “But if you truly listen to his voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 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 annihilate them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:24 - “You shall not worship their gods, you shall not serve them, and you shall not do according to their deeds; but you shall utterly pull them down and shatter their sacred pillars in pieces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:25 - “But you shall serve Yahweh your God, [fn]and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 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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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 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 [fn]turn their backs to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:28 - “And I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:29 - “I will not drive them out before you in a single year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:30 - “I will drive them out before you little by little, until you become fruitful and take the land as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - “And I will set your boundary from the [fn]Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the [fn]River; for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out from before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:32 - “You shall cut no covenant with them or with their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 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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LSB Footnotes
Lit many men
Or answer
Lit many men
Or pervert justice, cf. 23:6
Lit honor
Lit lying word
Or distorts the words
Or righteous
Lit drop
Related to sabbath, cf. Gen 2:2
Related to Noah, cf. Gen 2:15; 5:29
Lit on
Lit they shall not
Or festival
Or that He may bless
Lit offer their necks
Lit Sea of Reeds
The Euphrates River
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