Exodus 23 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 |You are not to spread a false report, nor are you to join forces with the wicked to be a malicious witness. “You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. “Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.
2 You are not to follow the majority in doing wrong, and you are not to testify in a lawsuit so as to follow the majority and pervert justice. You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd,
3 You are not to show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit. nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit. and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.
4 |If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, you are to certainly return it to him. “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him. “If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it.
5 If you see your enemy's donkey lying helpless under its load, you must not abandon it; rather, you are certainly to return it to him. If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him. If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.
6 |You are not to pervert justice for the poor among you in their lawsuits. “You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. “Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
7 Stay far away from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent or the righteous, because I won't acquit the guilty. Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.
8 You are not to take a bribe because a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the righteous. And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right. “Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.
9 You are not to oppress the resident alien, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt.| “You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. “Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
10 |You are to sow your land and gather its crops for six years, “For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, “For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops,
11 but you are to let it rest the seventh year, leaving it unplanted. The poor of your people may eat from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. You are to do the same with your vineyards and olive groves. but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard. but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
12 You are to do your work for six days, but on the seventh day you are to refrain from work so that your ox and donkey may rest, and so the son of your maidservant and the alien may be refreshed. “Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed. “Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.
13 |Be careful about everything I've told you, and don't mention the name of other gods. Don't let them be heard in your mouth!| “Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips. “Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.
14 |Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival for me. “Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. “Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
15 You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month Abib, because in it you came out of Egypt. No one is to appear before me empty handed. You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed. “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. “No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
16 You are to observe the Festival of Harvest, celebrating the first fruits of your work in planting the field, and the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather the fruit of your work from the field. You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. “Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
17 Three times a year all your males shall appear in the presence of the Lord GOD.| Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord GOD. “Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD.
18 |You are not to offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, and you are not to let the fat portion of my sacrifice remain overnight until morning. “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning. “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast. “The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.
19 |You are to bring the best of the first fruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. |You are not to boil a young goat in its mother's milk.| “The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
20 |Look, I'm sending an angel in front of you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place I've prepared. “Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. “See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
21 Be careful! Be sure to obey him. Don't rebel against him, because he won't forgive your transgression, since my Name is in him. Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him. Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him.
22 Indeed, if you carefully obey him and do everything that I say, then I'll be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries, “But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you.
23 because my angel will go ahead of you and will bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I'll annihilate them. “When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.
24 You are not to bow down to their gods or serve them. You are not to follow their practices, but you are to overthrow them completely and smash their sacred stones to pieces. you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces. Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces.
25 You are to serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your food and water, and I'll remove sickness from you. You shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you. Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you,
26 No woman will miscarry or be barren in your land, and I'll make every day of your life complete. None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.
27 |I'll go ahead of you and terrorize all the people to whom you are coming. I'll confuse your enemies and make them turn their backs on you and run away. I will send my terror before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. “I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run.
28 I'll send hornets ahead of you and they'll drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you. And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
29 I won't drive them out before you in a single year, so that the land does not become desolate and so that wild animals do not overrun you. I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you. But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.
30 I'll drive them out ahead of you little by little until you increase in numbers and possess the land. Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.
31 |I'll set your borders from the Reed Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, bringing the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you are to drive them out ahead of you. And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. “I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you.
32 You are not to make a covenant with them or with their gods. You shall make no covenant with them and their gods. Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods.
33 They are not to live in your land. Otherwise they will cause you to sin against me. If you worship their gods, it will become a snare for you.| They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.” Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you.”
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