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The Second Book of Moses: Called Exodus, Chapter 23
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Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the
wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
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Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou
speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
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Neither
shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
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If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt
surely bring it back to him again.
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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.
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Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
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Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous
slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
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And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and
perverteth the words of the righteous.
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Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of
a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the
fruits thereof:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
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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:)
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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.
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Three items in the year all thy males shall appear before the
LORD God.
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Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened
bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
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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.
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Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way,
and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
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Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will
not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
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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.
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For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the
Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites,
the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
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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.
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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.
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There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy
land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
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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.
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And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the
Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
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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.
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By little and little I will drive them out from before thee,
until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
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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.
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Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
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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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