rwbs - 23

rwbs@Exodus:23:1 @ Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. (note:)raise: or, receive(:note)

rwbs@Exodus:23:2 @ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after many to pervert: (note:)speak: Hebrews. answer(:note)

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

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

rwbs@Exodus: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. (note:)and…: or, wilt thou cease to help him? or, and wouldest cease to leave thy business for him: thou shalt surely leave it to join with him(:note)

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

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

rwbs@Exodus:23:8 @ And thou shalt take no bribe: for the bribe blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. (note:)the wise: Hebrews. the seeing(:note)

rwbs@Exodus: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. (note:)heart: Hebrews. soul(:note)

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

rwbs@Exodus:23:11 @ But the seventh 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, with thy oliveyard. (note:)oliveyard: or, olive trees(:note)

rwbs@Exodus: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.

rwbs@Exodus:23:13 @ And in all 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.

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

rwbs@Exodus: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:)

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

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

rwbs@Exodus: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. (note:)sacrifice: or, feast(:note)

rwbs@Exodus: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.

rwbs@Exodus: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.

rwbs@Exodus:23:21 @ Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name in him.

rwbs@Exodus: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. (note:)an adversary…: or, I will afflict them that afflict thee(:note)

rwbs@Exodus: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.

rwbs@Exodus: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.

rwbs@Exodus: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.

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

rwbs@Exodus: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. (note:)backs: Hebrews. neck(:note)

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

rwbs@Exodus: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.

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

rwbs@Exodus: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.

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

rwbs@Exodus: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.

Exodus 23