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| Exodus 23:1 | Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness. | Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. | "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. |
| Exodus 23:2 | Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision: | Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: | You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice; |
| Exodus 23:3 | But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause. | Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. | neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause. |
| Exodus 23:4 | If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him. | If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. | "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. |
| Exodus 23:5 | If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire. | 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. | If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it. |
| Exodus 23:6 | Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause. | Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. | "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. |
| Exodus 23:7 | Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin. | Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. | "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked. |
| Exodus 23:8 | Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false. | And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. | You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous. |
| Exodus 23:9 | Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land. | Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. | "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, seeing you were aliens in the land of Egypt. |
| Exodus 23:10 | For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase; | And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: | "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, |
| Exodus 23:11 | But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees. | 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. | 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 animal of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove. |
| Exodus 23:12 | For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you. | 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. | "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed. |
| Exodus 23:13 | Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips. | 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. | "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth. |
| Exodus 23:14 | Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me. | Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. | "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year. |
| Exodus 23:15 | You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your bread be without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt); and let no one come before me without an offering: | 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:) | You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty. |
| Exodus 23:16 | And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields. | 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. | And the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field. |
| Exodus 23:17 | Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God. | Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD. | Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh. |
| Exodus 23:18 | Do not give the blood of my offering with leavened bread; and do not let the fat of my feast be kept all night till the morning. | Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. | "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning. |
| Exodus 23:19 | The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk. | 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. | The first of the first-fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. |
| Exodus 23:20 | See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you. | Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. | "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. |
| Exodus 23:21 | Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him. | Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. | Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him. |
| Exodus 23:22 | But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you. | 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. | But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. |
| Exodus 23:23 | And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut off by my hand. | For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. | For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off. |
| Exodus 23:24 | Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down. | 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. | You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars. |
| Exodus 23:25 | And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you. | 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. | You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst. |
| Exodus 23:26 | All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life. | There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. | No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days. |
| Exodus 23:27 | I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you. | 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. | I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. |
| Exodus 23:28 | I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face. | And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. | I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. |
| Exodus 23:29 | I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you. | 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. | I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you. |
| Exodus 23:30 | Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land. | By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. | Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land. |
| Exodus 23:31 | I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you. | 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. | I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. |
| Exodus 23:32 | Make no agreement with them or with their gods. | Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. | You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. |
| Exodus 23:33 | Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you. | 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. | 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." |
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