You Shall Serve the Lord your God - Exodus 23

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine  hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.  Exodus 23:1 KJV

Exodus 23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil;  neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to  wrest judgment:  

Exodus 23:3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his  cause.   

Exodus 23:4 If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going  astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 

Exodus 23:5 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. 

Exodus 23:6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of  thy poor in his cause. 

Exodus 23:7 Keep thee far from a false  matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I  will not justify the wicked.  

Exodus 23:8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth  the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.  

Exodus 23:9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know  the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land  of Egypt. 

Exodus 23:10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land,  and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: 

Exodus 23:11 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. 

Exodus 23:12 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. 

Exodus 23:13 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.  

Exodus 23:14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the  year. 

Exodus 23:15 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:) 

Exodus 23:16 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.  

Exodus 23:17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear  before the Lord GOD. 

Exodus 23:18 Thou shalt not offer the  blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the  fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. 

Exodus 23:19 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.  

Exodus 23:20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee  in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have  prepared. 

Exodus 23:21 Beware of him, and obey his voice,  provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions:  for my name is in him. 

Exodus 23:22 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. 

Exodus 23:23 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. 

Exodus 23:24 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. 

Exodus 23:25 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.   

Exodus 23:26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be  barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.  

Exodus 23:27 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. 

Exodus 23:28 And I will  send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite,  the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. 

Exodus 23:29 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. 

Exodus 23:30 By little and little I will drive them  out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the  land. 

Exodus 23:31 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.  

Exodus 23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with  their gods. 

Exodus 23:33 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. KJV


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