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| Exodus 23:1 | Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person. | Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness. | "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. |
| Exodus 23:2 | Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from the truth. | Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision: | 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 | Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment. | 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 shall you favor a poor man in his cause. |
| Exodus 23:4 | If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him. | 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 you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. |
| Exodus 23:5 | If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his burden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with him. | 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 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 | Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment. | Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause. | "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. |
| Exodus 23:7 | Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked. | 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 far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked. |
| Exodus 23:8 | Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just. | Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false. | You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous. |
| Exodus 23:9 | Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt. | 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. | "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 | Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn thereof. | For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase; | "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, |
| Exodus 23:11 | But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer it to rest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and whatsoever shall be left, let the beasts of the field eat it: so shalt thou do with thy vineyard and thy oliveyard. | 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 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 | Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt cease, that thy ox and thy ass may rest: and the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed. | 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 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 | Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of strange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your mouth. | 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. | "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 every year you shall celebrate feasts to me. | Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me. | "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year. |
| Exodus 23:15 | Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear empty before me. | 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: | 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 harvest of the firstfruits of thy work, whatsoever thou hast sown in the field. The feast also in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in all thy corn out of the field. | 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 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 | Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God. | Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God. | Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh. |
| Exodus 23:18 | Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven, neither shall the fat of my solemnity remain until the morning. | 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. | "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 | Thou shalt carry the firstfruits of the corn of thy ground to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam. | 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 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 | Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have prepared. | 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 you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. |
| Exodus 23:21 | Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think him one to be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my name is in him. | 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. | 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 thou wilt hear his voice, and do all that I speak, I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee. | 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 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 shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, whom I will destroy. | 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 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 | Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues. | 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. | 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 you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless your bread and your waters, and may take away sickness from the midst of thee. | 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. | 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 | There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land: I will fill the number of thy days. | 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. | 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 thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies before thee. | 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 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 | Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before thou come in. | I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face. | 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 cast them out from thy face in one year: lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee. | 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 you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you. |
| Exodus 23:30 | By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, till thou be increased, and dost possess the land. | Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land. | Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land. |
| Exodus 23:31 | And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from before you. | 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. | 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 | Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods. | Make no agreement with them or with their gods. | You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. |
| Exodus 23:33 | Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps thy make thee sin against me, if thou serve their god: which undoubtedly will be a scandal to thee. | 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 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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