Exodus 23:7-33 ▼

7 From a false matter you shall keep far, and the innocent and righteous you shall not kill, for I will not justify the wicked.

8 And a bribe you shall not take, for the bribe blinds the clear-sighted and perverts the words of the righteous.

9 And a sojourner you shall not oppress, for you? yourselves know the soul of a sojourner, because you? were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

10 And for six years you shall sow your land and gather its produce.

11 And the seventh year you shall let it rest and let it lie fallow, and the poor of your people shall eat. And what they leave, the beast of the field shall eat. You shall do likewise for your vineyard and for your olive grove.

12 Six days you shall do your works, and on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maidservant and the sojourner may be refreshed.

13 And take heed in all that I have said to you?. And the name of other gods you? shall not mention, nor let it be heard on your mouth.

14 Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to Me.

15 The Feast of the Unleavened you shall keep; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib; for in it you came out of Egypt. And none shall appear before My face empty.

16 And the Feast of the Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you sow in the field; and the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors from the field.

17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the face of the Lord YHWH.

18 You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice on leavened bread, nor shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until morning.

19 The first of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of YHWH your God. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

20 Behold, I am sending an angel before your face to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.

21 Be guarded from his face and listen to his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your? transgressions, for My name is within him.

22 But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

23 For My angel will go before your faces and bring you in to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.

24 You shall not bow down to their gods, and you shall not serve them, and you shall not do according to their works; for you must utterly demolish them and thoroughly break to pieces their pillars.

25 And you? shall serve YHWH your? God, and He will bless your bread and your water, and I will take away sickness from among you.

26 There will be no one miscarrying or barren in your land; the number of your days I will fulfill.

27 My terror I will send before your faces, and I will confuse all the people among whom you come in; and I will give the neck of all your enemies to you.

28 And I will send the hornet before your faces, and it shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before your faces.

29 I will not drive them out from before your faces in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beast of the field become too numerous for you.

30 Little by little I will drive them out from before your faces, until that you are fruitful and you take possession of the land.

31 And I will set your border from the Red Sea and to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River. For I will give into your? hands those dwelling in the land, and you shall drive them out from before your faces.

32 You shall not cut a covenant with them or with their gods.

33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”