Exodus
Chapter 23
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1You shall not lift up an empty report. Do not set your hand with the guilty to be a violent witness.
2You shall not follow the many to do harm, and you shall not answer in a dispute to bend after the many, to bend it.
3You shall not favor a poor man in his dispute.
4When you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering, you shall bring it back, you shall bring it back to him.
5When you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying under its load, and you would hold back from loosening it for him, you shall loosen it, you shall loosen it with him.
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Azav is both “leave” and “let loose.” The line says hold back from leaving it, then loosen it with him. Both verbs are printed. A single “help him” would drop the tension in the Hebrew.
6You shall not bend the judgment of your needy person in his dispute.
7Keep far from a false word. Do not kill the innocent and the one in the right, because I will not acquit the guilty.
8You shall not take a Money paid so that someone will do wrong., because the Money paid so that someone will do wrong. blinds the clear-sighted and twists the words of those in the right.
9You shall not press a A person living in a land that is not their own.. You know the life of the A person living in a land that is not their own., because you were People living in a land that is not their own. in the land of Egypt.
10Six years you shall sow your land and gather its yield.
11The seventh you shall let it drop and leave it, and the needy of your people shall eat, and what they leave the wild animal of the field shall eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard and your olive trees.
12Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall stop, so that your ox and your donkey rest, and the son of your female slave, and the A person living in a land that is not their own., catch their breath.
13In everything I have said to you, you shall be careful. The name of other gods you shall not mention. It shall not be heard on your mouth.
14Three times you shall hold a feast for me in the year.
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Regalim are the times of going up, the pilgrim feasts. “Three times” keeps the count.
15You shall keep the feast of Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. bread. Seven days you shall eat Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Aviv, because in it you came out of Egypt. They shall not see my face empty.
16And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your work, what you sow in the field, and the feast of gathering, at the end of the year, when you gather your work from the field.
17Three times in the year every male of yours shall appear before the face of the Lord, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Ha-adon Yahweh writes both “the Lord” and the four consonants. Both are printed. Yahweh is not substituted for the Lord.
18You shall not sacrifice the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, and the fat of my feast shall not stay overnight until morning.
19The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
20Look, I am sending a messenger before you, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
21Be careful before him and listen to his voice. Do not rebel against him, because he will not lift your offenses, because my name is in him.
22If you listen, listen to his voice and do all that I speak, I will be an enemy to your enemies and an opponent to your opponents.
23When my messenger goes before you and brings you to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and I wipe them out,
24you shall not bow to their gods, and you shall not serve them, and you shall not do as they do. You shall tear them down, you shall tear them down, and you shall smash, you shall smash their standing stones.
25You shall serve God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will turn sickness away from your midst.
26There shall be no woman who miscarries or is Unable to have a child. in your land. I will fill the number of your days.
27I will send my terror before you and throw into confusion every people you come among, and I will give all your enemies to you by the back of the neck.
28I will send the hornet before you, and it will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.
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Tzira is printed “the hornet.” The word can also be read as a panic. The insect is the printed sense, and the panic is the live alternative.
29I will not drive them out from before you in one year, or the land would become a waste and the wild animal of the field would multiply against you.
30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you are fruitful and take possession of the land.
31I will set your border from the Sea of Reeds to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River, because I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out from before you.
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Ha-nahar is “the River,” the great river to the north. A proper name is not added.
32You shall not cut a A solemn agreement that binds God and people. with them or with their gods.
33They shall not live in your land, or they will make you do wrong against me. If you serve their gods, it will become a snare for you.”