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Chapter 23
1 You shall not receive the voice of a lie: neither shall you join your hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.
2 You shall not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shall you yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from the truth.
3 Neither shall you favour a poor man in judgment.
4 If you meet your enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him.
5 If you see the ass of him that hates you lie underneath his burden, you shall not pass by, but shall lift him up with him.
6 You shall not go aside in the poor man's judgment.
7 You shall fly lying. The innocent and just person you shall not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.
8 Neither shall you take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.
9 You shall not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
10 Six years you shall sow your ground, and shall gather the corn thereof.
11 But the seventh year you shall let it alone, and suffer it to rest, that the poor of your people may eat, and whatsoever shall be left, let the beasts of the field eat it: so shall you do with your vineyard and your oliveyard.
12 Six days you shall work: the seventh day you shall cease, that your ox and your ass may rest: and the son of your handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed.
13 Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of strange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your mouth.
14 Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.
15 You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the time of the month of new corn, when you did come forth out of Egypt: you shall not appear empty before me.
16 And the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of your work, whatsoever you have sown in the field. The feast also in the end of the year, when you have gathered in all your corn out of the field.
17 Thrice a year shall all your males appear before the Lord your God.
18 You shall not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven, neither shall the fat of my solemnity remain until the morning.
19 You shall carry the firstfruits of the corn of your ground to the house of the Lord your God. you shall not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.
20 Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before you, and keep you in your journey, and bring you into the place that I have prepared.
21 Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think him one to be contemned: for he will not forgive when you have sinned, and my name is in him.
22 But if you will hear his voice, and do all that I speak, I will be an enemy to your enemies, and will afflict them that afflict you.
23 And my angel shall go before you, and shall bring you in unto the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, whom I will destroy.
24 You shall not adore their gods, nor serve them. you shall not do their works, but shall destroy them, and break their statues.
25 And you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless your bread and your waters, and may take away sickness from the midst of you.
26 There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in your land: I will fill the number of your days.
27 I will send my fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you shall come: and will turn the backs of all your enemies before you.
28 Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before you come in.
29 I will not cast them out from your face in one year: lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against you.
30 By little and little I will drive them out from before you, till you be increased, and do possess the land.
31 And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from before you.
32 You shall not enter into league with them, nor with their gods.
33 Let them not dwell in your land, lest perhaps your make you sin against me, if you serve their god: which undoubtedly will be a scandal to you.