English Bible
Exodus 23
Big screen- 1You shall not raise a false report: put not yours hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- 2You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline after many to shift judgment:
- 3Neither shall you countenance a poor man in his cause.
- 4If you meet yours enemy's ox or his ass going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
- 5If you see the ass of him that hates you lying under his burden, and would forbear to help him, you shall surely help with him.
- 6You shall not shift the judgment of your poor in his cause.
- 7Keep you far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay you not: for I will not justify the wicked.
- 8And you shall take no gift: for the gift blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
- 9Also you shall not oppress a stranger: for all of you know the heart of a stranger, seeing all of you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
- 10And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in the fruits thereof:
- 11But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie still; that the poor of your people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard, and with your olive yard.
- 12Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest: that yours ox and yours ass may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
- 13And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth.
- 14Three times you shall keep a feast unto me in the year.
- 15You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread: (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it you came out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
- 16And the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of your labours, which you have sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labours out of the field.
- 17Three items in the year all your males shall appear before the LORD God.
- 18You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
- 19The first of the first-fruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
- 20Behold, I send an Angel before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
- 21Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
- 22But if you shall indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto yours enemies, and an adversary unto yours adversaries.
- 23For mine Angel shall go before you, and bring you in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
- 24You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but you shall utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
- 25And all of you shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless your bread, and your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you.
- 26There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in your land: the number of your days I will fulfill.
- 27I will send my fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you shall come, and I will make all yours enemies turn their backs unto you.
- 28And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
- 29I will not drive them out from before you in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against you.
- 30By little and little I will drive them out from before you, until you be increased, and inherit the land.
- 31And I will set your bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and you shall drive them out before you.
- 32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
- 33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me: for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto you.