RWebster - Exodus - 23

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

23:2  Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after many to pervert judgment :

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

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

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

23:6  Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

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

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

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.

23:10  And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in its fruits:

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 oliveyard.

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

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.

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

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:)

23:16  And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

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

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.

23:19  The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother’s milk.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.