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Sundry
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| Exodus 23:1 |
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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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| Exodus 23:2 |
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"You shall not follow the masses in doing evil,
nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order
to pervert justice; |
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| Exodus 23:3 |
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nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his
dispute. |
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| Exodus 23:4 |
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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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| Exodus 23:5 |
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"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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| Exodus 23:6 |
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"You shall not pervert the justice due to your
needy brother in his dispute. |
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| Exodus 23:7 |
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"Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill
the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty. |
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| Exodus 23:8 |
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"You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds
the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just. |
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| Exodus 23:9 |
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"You shall not oppress a stranger, since you
yourselves know the feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the
land of Egypt. |
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The
Sabbath and Land |
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| Exodus 23:10 |
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"You shall sow your land for six years and gather
in its yield, |
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| Exodus 23:11 |
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but on the seventh year you shall let it 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. |
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| Exodus 23:12 |
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"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 your stranger, may refresh themselves. |
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| Exodus 23:13 |
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"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 from your mouth. |
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Three
National Feasts |
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| Exodus 23:14 |
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"Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast
to Me. |
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| Exodus 23:15 |
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"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 none shall appear
before Me empty-handed. |
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| Exodus 23:16 |
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"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. |
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| Exodus 23:17 |
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"Three times a year all your males shall appear
before the Lord GOD. |
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| Exodus 23:18 |
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"You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice
with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning. |
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| Exodus 23:19 |
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"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. |
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Conquest
of the Land |
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| Exodus 23:20 |
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"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. |
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| Exodus 23:21 |
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"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. |
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| Exodus 23:22 |
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"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. |
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| Exodus 23:23 |
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"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. |
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| Exodus 23:24 |
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"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. |
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| Exodus 23:25 |
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"But you shall serve the LORD your God, and
He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your
midst. |
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| Exodus 23:26 |
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"There shall be no one miscarrying or barren
in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. |
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| Exodus 23:27 |
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"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. |
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| Exodus 23:28 |
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"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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| Exodus 23:29 |
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"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. |
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| Exodus 23:30 |
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"I will drive them out before you little by
little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land. |
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| Exodus 23:31 |
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"I will fix your boundary from the 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. |
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| Exodus 23:32 |
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"You shall make no covenant with them or with
their gods. |
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| Exodus 23:33 |
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"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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