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{Exodus 23:1} Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:2} Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment:] ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:3} Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:4} If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:5} If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:6} Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:8} And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:10} And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:11} But the seventh [year] 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, [and] with thy oliveyard. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:12} Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:13} And 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 thy mouth. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:14} Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{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:) ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{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, [which is] in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:17} Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{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 seethe a kid in his mother’s milk. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:21} Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name [is] in him. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:22} But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:23} For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

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

{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 thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

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

{Exodus 23:29} I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

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

{Exodus 23:31} And I will set thy 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 thou shalt drive them out before thee. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:32} Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Exodus 23:33} They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

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