Exodus 23
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Exodus 23:5-15

51If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall not leave it helpless for 2its owner; you must arrange the load with him.

6“3You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute. 74Keep far from a false charge, and 5do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for 6I will not acquit the guilty.

8“7You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and 8subverts the cause of the just.

9“9You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the 10feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10“Now 11you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield, 11but in the seventh year you shall let it 12rest and lie uncultivated, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the animal of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

12“13For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as the stranger residing with you, may refresh themselves. 13Now 14concerning everything which I have said to you, be careful; and 15do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard 16from your mouth.

14“17Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. 15You shall keep 18the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the 19month of Abib, for in 20that month you came out of Egypt. And 2122no one is to appear before Me empty-handed.

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Notes

  1. 1. Exodus 23:5 Deut 22:4 ↩
  2. 2. Exodus 23:5 Lit him ↩
  3. 3. Exodus 23:6 Ex 23:2, 3; Lev 19:15 ↩
  4. 4. Exodus 23:7 Ex 20:16; Ps 119:29; Eph 4:25 ↩
  5. 5. Exodus 23:7 Ex 20:13; Deut 27:25 ↩
  6. 6. Exodus 23:7 Ex 34:7; Deut 25:1; Rom 1:18 ↩
  7. 7. Exodus 23:8 Deut 10:17; 16:19; Prov 15:27; 17:8, 23; Is 5:22, 23 ↩
  8. 8. Exodus 23:8 Or distorts the words ↩
  9. 9. Exodus 23:9 Ex 22:21; Lev 19:33f; Deut 24:17f; 27:19 ↩
  10. 10. Exodus 23:9 Lit soul ↩
  11. 11. Exodus 23:10 Lev 25:1-7 ↩
  12. 12. Exodus 23:11 Lit drop ↩
  13. 13. Exodus 23:12 Ex 20:8-11; 31:15; 34:21; 35:2, 3; Lev 23:3; Deut 5:13f ↩
  14. 14. Exodus 23:13 Deut 4:9, 23; 1 Tim 4:16 ↩
  15. 15. Exodus 23:13 Josh 23:7; Ps 16:4; Hos 2:17 ↩
  16. 16. Exodus 23:13 Lit on ↩
  17. 17. Exodus 23:14 Ex 23:17; 34:22-24; Deut 16:16 ↩
  18. 18. Exodus 23:15 Ex 12:14-20; Lev 23:6-8; Num 28:16-25 ↩
  19. 19. Exodus 23:15 Ex 12:2; 13:4 ↩
  20. 20. Exodus 23:15 Lit it ↩
  21. 21. Exodus 23:15 Lit they shall not ↩
  22. 22. Exodus 23:15 Ex 22:29; 34:20 ↩

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