Shemoth (Exodus) 23

Exod 23:1 “Do not bring a false report. Do not put your hand with the wrong
to be a malicious witness.
Exod 23:2 “Do not follow a crowd to do evil, nor bear witness in a strife so
as to turn aside after many, to turn aside what is right.
Exod 23:3 “And do not favour a poor man in his strife.
Exod 23:4 “When you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you
shall certainly return it to him.
Exod 23:5 “When you see the donkey of him who hates you lying under its
burden, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall certainly help him.
Exod 23:6 “Do not turn aside the right-ruling of your poor in his strife.
Exod 23:7 “Keep yourself far from a false matter, and do not kill the
innocent and the righteous, for I do not declare the wrong right.
Exod 23:8 “And do not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the seeing one and
twists the words of the righteous.
Exod 23:9 “And do not oppress a sojourner, as you yourselves know the
heart of a sojourner, because you were sojourners in the land of Mitsrayim.
Exod 23:10 “And for six years you are to sow your land, and shall gather its
increase,
Exod 23:11 but the seventh year you are to let it rest, and shall leave it, and
the poor of your people shall eat. And what they leave, the beasts of the field
eat. Do the same with your vineyard and your oliveyard.
Exod 23:12 “Six days you are to do your work, and on the seventh day you
rest, in order that your ox and your donkey might rest, and the son of your
female servant and the sojourner be refreshed.
Exod 23:13 “And in all that I have said to you take heed. And make no
mention of the name of other mighty ones, let it not be heard from your mouth.
Exod 23:14 “ Three times in the year you are to observe a festival to Me:
Exod 23:15 “Guard the Festival of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you eat
unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of
Aḇiḇ – for in it you came out of Mitsrayim – and do not appear before Me
empty-handed;
Exod 23:16 and the Festival of the Harvest, the first-fruits of your labours
which you have sown in the field; and the Festival of the Ingathering at the
outgoing of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labours from
the field.
Exod 23:17 “Three times in the year all your males are to appear before the
.יהוה Master
Exod 23:18 “Do not offer the blood of My slaughtering with leavened bread,
and the fat of My offering shall not remain until morning.
Exod 23:19 “Bring the first of the first-fruits of your land into the House of
יהוה your Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Exod 23:20 “See, I am sending a Messenger before you to guard you in the
way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
Exod 23:21 “Be on guard before Him and obey His voice. Do not rebel
against Him, for He is not going to pardon your transgression, for My Name
is in Him.
Exod 23:22 “But if you diligently obey His voice and shall do all that I
speak, then I shall be an enemy to your enemies and a distresser to those who
distress you.
Exod 23:23 “For My Messenger shall go before you and shall bring you in
to the Amorites and the Ḥittites and the Perizzites and the Kena‛anites and the
Ḥiwwites and the Yeḇusites, and I shall cut them off.
Exod 23:24 “Do not bow down to their mighty ones, nor serve them, nor do
according to their works, but without fail overthrow them and without fail
break down their pillars.
Exod 23:25 “And you shall serve יהוה your Elohim, and He shall bless your
bread and your water. And I shall remove sickness from your midst.
Exod 23:26 “None shall miscarry or be barren in your land. I shall fill the
number of your days.
Exod 23:27 “I shall send My fear before you, and cause confusion among all
the people to whom you come, and make all your enemies turn their backs to
you.
Exod 23:28 “And I shall send hornets before you, which shall drive out the
Ḥiwwite, the Kena‛anite, and the Ḥittite from before you.
Exod 23:29 “I shall not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the
land become a waste and the beast of the field become too numerous for you.
Exod 23:30 “Little by little I shall drive them out from before you, until you
have increased, and you inherit the land.
Exod 23:31 “And I shall set your border from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of
the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River, for I shall give the
inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before
you.
Exod 23:32 “Do not make a covenant with them nor with their mighty ones.
Exod 23:33 “Let them not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against
Me when you serve their mighty ones, when it becomes a snare to you.”