King James VersionExodus23

Exodus

1 Thou shalt not raise a false re­port: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an un­righ­teous wit­ness. 2 Thou shalt not fol­low a mul­ti­tude to do evil; nei­ther shalt thou speak in a cause to de­cline af­ter many to wrest judgment: 3 Nei­ther shalt thou coun­te­nance a poor man in his cause. 4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass go­ing astray, thou shalt sure­ly bring it back to him again. 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. 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judg­ment of thy poor in his cause. 7 Keep thee far from a false mat­ter; and the in­no­cent and righ­teous slay thou not: for I will not jus­ti­fy the wicked. 8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blin­deth the wise, and per­verteth the words of the righ­teous. 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. 10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gath­er in the fruits there­of: 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. 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. 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. 14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. 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:) 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. 17 Three times in the year all thy males shall ap­pear be­fore the Lord GOD. 18 Thou shalt not of­fer the blood of my sac­ri­fice with leav­ened bread; nei­ther shall the fat of my sac­ri­fice re­main un­til the morn­ing. 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. 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. 21 Be­ware of him, and obey his voice, pro­voke him not; for he will not par­don your trans­gres­sions: for my name is in him. 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. 23 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. 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. 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. 26 There shall noth­ing cast their young, nor be bar­ren, in thy land: the num­ber of thy days I will ful­fil. 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. 28 And I will send hor­nets be­fore thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaan­ite, and the Hit­tite, from be­fore thee. 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. 30 By lit­tle and lit­tle I will drive them out from be­fore thee, un­til thou be in­creased, and in­her­it the land. 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. 32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 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.