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Title: Old Testament, The
Book: Exodus
Author: Various
Date: 1885
Chapter 23
Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked
to be an unrighteous witness. Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil;
neither shalt thou ^6 speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to
wrest justice: neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.
[Footnote 6: Or, bear witness]
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely
bring it back to him again. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying
under his burden, ^7 thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely
release it with him.
[Footnote 7: Or, and wouldest forbear to release it for him, thou shalt surely
release it with him]
Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause. Keep thee
far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I
will not justify the wicked. And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe
blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the ^1 words of the righteous.
And a sojourner shalt thou not oppress: for ye know the heart of a sojourner,
seeing ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
[Footnote 1: Or, cause]
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase
thereof: but the seventh year thou shalt ^2 let it rest and lie fallow, that
the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field
shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy
oliveyard. Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt
^3 rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy
handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed. And in all things that I have
said unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other gods,
neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
[Footnote 2: Or, release it and let it lie fallow See Dt. 15:2]
[Footnote 3: Or, keep sabbath]
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. The feast of
unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread,
as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it thou
camest out from Egypt); and none shall appear before me empty: and the feast
of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sowest in the field:
and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in
thy labors out of the field. Three times in the year all thy males shall
appear before the Lord Jehovah.
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread;
neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning. The
first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of
Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to
bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Take ye heed before him, and
hearken unto his voice; ^4 provoke him not; for he will not pardon your
transgression: for my name is in him. But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto
his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine
enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. For mine angel shall go
before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the
Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: and I will cut
them off. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after
their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their
^5 pillars. And ye shall serve Jehovah your God, and he will bless thy bread,
and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There
shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days
I will fulfil. I will send my terror before thee, and will discomfit all the
people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their
backs unto thee. And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive
out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. I will not
drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate,
and the beasts of the filed multiply against thee. By little and little I
will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the
land. And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the
Philistines, and from the wilderness unto ^6 the River: for I will deliver the
inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before
thee. Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. They shall
not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve
their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
[Footnote 4: Or, be not rebellious against him]
[Footnote 5: Or, obelisks]
[Footnote 6: That is, the Euphrates.]