Exodus:23

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* »Do not spread false rumors . Do not help a guilty person by offering false testimony . * »Do not follow the majority to do wrong . Do not give testimony that perverts justice . * »Do not show partiality to a poor man at his trial . * »If you see your enemy ’s cow or donkey running loose , take it back to him . * »If your enemy ’s donkey falls under its load , help him get the donkey to its feet again . Do not just walk away . * »Do not deny justice to a poor person at his trial . * »Do not make false accusations . Do not put an innocent person to death . I will condemn anyone who does this evil thing . * »Do not accept a bribe , for a bribe makes the discerning blind to what is right and perverts the words of the righteous . * »Do not mistreat a foreigner . You know how it feels to be a foreigner . After all you were foreigners in Egypt . * »Plant your land and gather in what it produces for six years . * »Let your land rest the seventh year . Do not harvest anything that grows on it . The poor may eat what grows there . The wild animals may have what is left . Do the same with your vineyards and your olive trees . * »Work six days a week . Do no work on the seventh day . Allow your slaves and the foreigners who work for you and even your animals to rest . * »Listen to everything Jehovah has said to you . Do not pray to other gods ! Do not even mention their names . * »Celebrate three festivals a year to honor me . * »In the month of Abib , the month in which you left Egypt , celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the way that I commanded you . Do not eat any bread made with yeast during the seven days of this festival . Never come to worship me without bringing an offering . * »Celebrate the Harvest Festival when you begin to harvest your crops . Celebrate the Festival of Shelters in the autumn , when you gather the fruit from your vineyards and orchards . * »All your males should appear before Jehovah God three times a year . * »Do not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread . Do not allow the fat of my feast to remain overnight until morning . * »Bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of Jehovah your God . Do not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother . * »I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place that I have prepared . * »Be on your guard before him and obey his voice . Do not be rebellious toward him . He will not pardon your transgression , since my name is in him . * »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 . * »My messenger will go ahead of you . I will lead you to the land of the Amorites , Hittites , Perizzites , Canaanites , Hivites , and Jebusites . I will wipe them out . * »Do not worship or serve their gods or follow their practices . You must destroy their gods and crush their sacred stones . * »You must serve Jehovah your God ! I will bless your food and water . I will take away all sickness from among you . * »No woman in your land will miscarry or be unable to have children . I will let you live a normal life span . * »I will send my terror ahead of you and throw any nation you meet into a panic . I will make all your enemies flee from you . * »I will throw your enemies into panic ! I will drive out the Hivites , the Canaanites , and the Hittites as you advance . * »I will not drive them out within a year ’s time . If I did , the land would become deserted . There would be too many wild animals for you . * »I will drive them a few at a time , until there are enough of you to take possession of the land . * »I will make the borders of your land extend from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Mediterranean Sea and from the desert to the Euphrates River . I will give you power over the inhabitants of the land . You will drive them out as you advance . * »Do not make any agreement with them or with their gods . * »Do not allow them to live in your land for they will make you sin against me . If you serve their gods it will be a snare to you .«

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