Exodus 23 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Sundry Laws

Exo 23:1“You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

Exo 23:2“You shall not follow [fn]the masses in doing evil, nor shall you [fn]testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after [fn]a multitude in order to pervert justice;

Exo 23:3

Exo 23:3nor shall you [fn]be partial to a poor man in his dispute.

Exo 23:4

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

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

Exo 23:6“You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.

Exo 23:7

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

Exo 23:8“You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and [fn]subverts the cause of the just.

Exo 23:9

Exo 23:9“You shall not oppress a [fn]stranger, since you yourselves know the [fn]feelings of a [fn]stranger, for you also were [fn]strangers in the land of Egypt.

The Sabbath and Land

Exo 23:10

Exo 23:10“You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield,

Exo 23:11

Exo 23:11but 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. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

Exo 23:12

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 [fn]your stranger, may refresh themselves.

Exo 23:13

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 [fn]from your mouth.

Three National Feasts

(Exo 34:18–26; Deu 16:1–17 )

Exo 23:14

Exo 23:14“Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.

Exo 23:15

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 [fn]none shall appear before Me empty-handed.

Exo 23:16

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

Exo 23:17“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord [fn]GOD.

Exo 23:18

Exo 23:18“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.

Exo 23:19

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.

Conquest of the Land

Exo 23:20

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

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

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

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

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

Exo 23:25“But you shall serve the LORD your God, [fn]and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst.

Exo 23:26

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

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

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

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

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

Exo 23:31“I will fix your boundary from the [fn]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

Exo 23:32“You shall [fn]make no covenant with them or with their gods.

Exo 23:33

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.”

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NASB95 Footnotes

(23:2)

Literally: many men

(23:2)

Or, answer

(23:3)

Literally: honor

(23:8)

Or, distorts the words

Or, sojourner(s)

Literally: soul

Literally: drop

Literally: the sojourner

(23:13)

Literally: on

(23:15)

Literally: they...not

(23:17)

Hebrew: YHWH, usually rendered LORD

(23:18)

Or, festival

(23:25)

Or, that He may bless

(23:31)

Literally: Sea of Reeds

(23:32)

Literally: cut

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