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CHAP. XXIII.
1 Of slander and false witnesse. 3.6 Of iustice. 4 Of charitablenesse. 10 Of the yeere of rest. 12 Of the Sabbath. 13 Of idolatrie. 14 Of the three feasts. 18 Of the blood and the fat of the sacrifice. 20 An Angel is promised, with a blessing, if they obey him.
1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to bee an vnrighteous witnesse.1
2 ¶ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to doe euill: neither shalt thou speake in a cause, to decline after many, to wrest iudgement:2
3 ¶ Neither shalt thou countenance a poore man in his cause.
5 If thou see the asse of him that hateth thee, lying vnder his burden, and wouldest forbeare to helpe him, thou shalt surely helpe with him.5
6 Thou shalt not wrest the iudgement of thy poore in his cause.
8 ¶ And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the words of the righteous.8
9 ¶ Also thou shalt not oppresse a stranger: for yee know the heart of a stranger, seeing yee were strangers in the land of Egypt.9
10 And sixe yeres thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruites thereof:10
11 But the seuenth yeere thou shalt let it rest, and lie still, that the poore of thy people may eate, and what they leaue, the beasts of the field shall eate. In like maner thou shalt deale with thy vineyard, and with thy oliue yard.11
12 Sixe dayes thou shalt doe thy worke, and on the seuenth day thou shalt rest: that thine oxe and thine asse may rest, and the sonne of thy handmayd, & the stranger may be refreshed.12
14 ¶ Three times thou shalt keepe a feast vnto me in the yeere.14
15 Thou shalt keepe the feast of vnleauened bread: thou shalt eate vnleauened bread seuen daies, as I commanded thee in the time appointed of the moneth Abib: for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appeare before me emptie:15
17 Three times in the yeere all thy males shall appeare before the Lord God.
18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leauened bread, neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remaine vntill the morning.18
19 The first of the first fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mothers milke.19
20 ¶ Behold, I send an Angel before thee to keepe thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I haue prepared.20
22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and doe all that I speake, then I wil be an enemie vnto thine enemies, and an aduersarie vnto thine aduersaries.22
23 For mine Angel shall goe before thee, and bring thee in vnto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites: and I will cut them off.23
24 Thou shalt not bow downe to their gods, nor serue them, nor doe after their workes: but thou shalt vtterly ouerthrowe them, and quite breake downe their images.24
26 ¶ There shall nothing cast their yong, nor bee barren in thy land: the number of thy dayes I will fulfill.26
27 I will send my feare before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turne their backes vnto thee.27
28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall driue out the Hiuite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee.28
32 Thou shalt make no couenant with them, nor with their gods.32
33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sinne against me: for if thou serue their gods, it will surely be a snare vnto thee.33
Exodus Chapter 23 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):
1 Or, receiue
2 Heb. answere.
5 Deu. 22.4 , Or, wilt thou cease to helpe him? or, & wouldest cease to leaue thy businesse for him: thou shalt surely leaue it to ioyne with him.
8 Deut. 16. 19. ecclus. 20.28. , Hebr. the seeing.
9 Heb. soule.
10 Leuit. 25. 3.
11 Or, oliue trees.
12 Chap. 20. 8. deut. 5. 13. luke 13. 14.
14 Deut. 16. 16.
15 Chap. 13.3 & 34.18. , Deut. 16. 16 ecclus. 35. 4.
18 Or, feast.
19 Chap. 34. 26. deut. 14 22.
20 Chap. 33. 2.
22 Or, I will afflict them that afflict thee.
23 Chap. 33.2. , Iosh.24. 11.
24 Deut. 7. 25.
26 Deut. 7. 14.
27 Heb. necks
28 Iosh. 24. 12.
32 Chap. 34. 15. deut. 7. 2.
33 Deut. 7. 16. iosh.23. 13. iudg.2 3.
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