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          DASV: Exodus 23    

1 "You shall not spread a false report. Do not join hands
with the wicked by being a malicious witness.
2 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; you shall not
testify in a lawsuit siding with the crowd so as to pervert justice.
3 You shall not be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.
4 If you find your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray,
you should bring it back to him.
5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen under
its burden, you should not just leave it there, you must
help by setting it free.
6 You shall not deny justice to your poor in his lawsuit.
7 Keep away from a false charge and do not kill the innocent
and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
8 You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who
should see and twists the words of the righteous.
9 You shall not oppress a foreigner, since you know the heart
of a foreigner, seeing you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

10 For six years you shall sow your land and harvest its crops.
11 But on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow;
that the poor of your people may eat and what they leave the
animals of the field may eat. Do the same thing for your
vineyards and your olive groves.
12 Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you
shall rest; so that your ox and your donkey may have rest,
and your female slave's son and the foreigner may be refreshed.
13 Pay attention to everything I have said to you. Do not mention
the name of other gods, or let them be heard on your lips.

14 Three times a year you shall hold a feast to me.
15 The Feast of Unleavened Bread you shall celebrate; for seven
days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you,
at the time appointed in the month Abib for that's when you came
out from Egypt. No one shall appear before me empty-handed.
16 Celebrate the Feast of Harvest, from the first fruits of your
labors which you have sown in the field. Celebrate the Feast of
Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in your
harvest from the field.
17 Three times in the year all your males must appear before
the Lord GOD.
18 You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened
bread or shall any of the fat of my feast remain until the
next morning.
19 The first 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 it mother's milk.

20 See, I am sending an angel before you, to protect you along
the way and to bring you into the place that I have prepared.
21 Pay attention to him and listen to his voice. Do not rebel against him,
or he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.
22 But if you listen carefully to his voice and do all that I say;
then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your
adversaries.
23 For my angel will go before you and bring you into the land of
the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and the Jebusites,
and I will wipe them out.
24 You must not bow down to their gods, or serve them, or follow
their practices. You must totally demolish them and smash their
sacred pillars to pieces.
25 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.
26 No one will miscarry her young or be barren in your land.
I will give you a long life full of days.

27 I will send my terror before you and will throw into confusion
all the people who oppose you and I will make all your enemies turn
their backs to you and run.
28 I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite,
Canaanite and Hittite from before you.
29 I will not drive them out in one year or the land would become
desolate and the wild animals would multiply against you.
30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you
have increased enough to possess the land.

31 I will set your border from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines,
and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. For I will deliver
the inhabitants of the land into your hand and you will drive them
out before you.
32 You shall not make a covenant with them or with their gods.
33 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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