Exodus 23

1“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.Cross-references: Ex 20:16 · Ex 23:7 · Lev 19:11 · Lev 19:16 · Deut 5:20 · Deut 19:16 · +31 more

2“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.Cross-references: Gen 6:12 · Gen 7:1 · Gen 19:4 · Gen 19:7 · Ex 23:6 · Ex 32:1 · +28 more

3You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.Cross-references: Lev 19:15 · Deut 1:17 · Ps 82:2 · James 3:17

4“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.Cross-references: Deut 22:1 · Job 31:29 · Prov 24:17 · Prov 25:21 · Matt 5:44 · Luke 6:27 · +2 more

5If 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.Cross-references: Deut 22:4

6“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.Cross-references: Ex 23:2 · Lev 19:15 · Deut 16:19 · Deut 27:19 · 2Chr 19:7 · Job 31:13 · +12 more

7“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.Cross-references: Ex 20:13 · Ex 23:1 · Ex 34:7 · Lev 19:11 · Deut 19:16 · Deut 27:25 · +10 more

8“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.Cross-references: Deut 10:17 · Deut 16:19 · 1Sam 8:3 · 1Sam 12:3 · Ps 26:10 · Prov 15:27 · +10 more

9“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.Cross-references: Ex 21:21 · Ex 22:21 · Deut 10:19 · Deut 24:14 · Deut 27:19 · Ps 94:6 · +3 more

10“For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,Cross-references: Lev 25:3

11but 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 the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.Cross-references: Lev 25:2 · Lev 25:11 · Lev 25:20 · Lev 25:22 · Lev 26:34

12“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 servant, and the alien may be refreshed.Cross-references: Ex 20:8 · Ex 31:15 · Ex 34:21 · Ex 35:3 · Deut 5:13 · Isa 58:3 · +1 more

13“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.Cross-references: Num 32:38 · Deut 4:9 · Deut 4:15 · Deut 12:3 · Josh 22:5 · Josh 23:7 · +11 more

14“You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.Cross-references: Ex 23:17 · Ex 34:22 · Lev 23:5 · Lev 23:16 · Lev 23:34 · Deut 16:16

15You 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 of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.Cross-references: Ex 12:14 · Ex 12:43 · Ex 13:4 · Ex 13:6 · Ex 34:18 · Ex 34:20 · +12 more

16And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.Cross-references: Ex 22:29 · Ex 34:22 · Lev 23:9 · Lev 23:34 · Num 28:26 · Num 29:12 · +6 more

17Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 23:14 · Ex 34:23 · Deut 12:5 · Deut 16:16 · Deut 31:11 · Ps 84:7 · +1 more

18“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.Cross-references: Ex 12:8 · Ex 12:10 · Ex 12:15 · Ex 34:25 · Lev 2:11 · Lev 7:12 · +2 more

19You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.Cross-references: Ex 22:29 · Ex 34:26 · Lev 23:10 · Num 18:12 · Deut 12:5 · Deut 14:21 · +7 more

20“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.Cross-references: Gen 15:18 · Gen 48:16 · Ex 3:2 · Ex 14:19 · Ex 15:17 · Ex 32:34 · +11 more

21Pay 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.Cross-references: Ex 3:14 · Ex 6:3 · Ex 32:34 · Ex 34:5 · Num 14:11 · Num 14:35 · +31 more

22But 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.Cross-references: Gen 12:3 · Num 24:9 · Deut 30:7 · Jer 30:20 · Zech 2:8 · Acts 9:4

23For 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.Cross-references: Gen 15:19 · Gen 34:2 · Ex 3:17 · Ex 23:20 · Ex 32:2 · Josh 24:8 · +1 more

24You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Ex 32:20 · Ex 34:13 · Lev 18:3 · Lev 18:26 · Num 33:52 · +10 more

25You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Deut 6:13 · Deut 7:13 · Deut 7:15 · Deut 10:12 · Deut 10:20 · +16 more

26No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.Cross-references: Gen 25:8 · Gen 35:29 · Deut 7:14 · Deut 28:4 · 1Chr 23:1 · Job 5:26 · +8 more

27I 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.Cross-references: Gen 35:5 · Ex 15:14 · Deut 2:25 · Deut 7:23 · Deut 11:23 · Deut 11:25 · +5 more

28I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.Cross-references: Deut 7:20 · Josh 24:11

29I 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.Cross-references: Deut 7:22 · Josh 15:63 · Josh 16:10 · Josh 17:12 · Judg 3:1

30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.

31I 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.Cross-references: Gen 15:18 · Num 21:34 · Num 34:3 · Deut 3:2 · Deut 11:24 · Josh 1:4 · +16 more

32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.Cross-references: Ex 34:12 · Ex 34:15 · Num 25:1 · Deut 7:2 · Deut 7:16 · Josh 9:14 · +3 more

33They 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.”Cross-references: Ex 34:12 · Deut 7:2 · Deut 7:16 · Deut 12:30 · Josh 23:13 · Judg 2:3 · +5 more