Exodus 23 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Various Laws

23 “(A)You shall not give a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked person to be a (B)malicious witness. 2 You shall not follow [a]the crowd in doing evil, nor shall you [b]testify in a dispute so as to join together with [c]a crowd in order to (C)pervert justice; 3 (D)nor shall you [d]show favor to a poor person in his dispute.

4 “(E)If you encounter your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you must return it to him. 5 (F)If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall not leave it helpless for [e]its owner; you must arrange the load with him.

6 “(G)You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute. 7 (H)Keep far from a false charge, and (I)do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for (J)I will not acquit the guilty.

8 “(K)You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and [f]subverts the cause of the just.

9 “(L)You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the [g]feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

The Sabbath and the Land

10 “Now (M)you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield, 11 but in the seventh year you shall let it [h]rest 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 “(N)For 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. 13 Now (O)concerning everything which I have said to you, be careful; and (P)do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard [i]from your mouth.

Three National Feasts

14 “(Q)Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. 15 You shall keep (R)the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the (S)month of Abib, for in [j]that month you came out of Egypt. And [k](T)no one is to appear before Me empty-handed. 16 Also you shall keep (U)the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year (V)when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field. 17 (W)Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord [l]God.

18 “(X)You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; (Y)nor is the fat of My [m]feast to remain overnight until morning.

19 “You shall bring (Z)the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God.

“(AA)You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

Conquest of the Land

20 “Behold, I am going to send (AB)an angel before you to guard you along the way and (AC)to bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21 Be attentive to him and obey his voice; (AD)do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your rebellion, since (AE)My name is in him. 22 But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then (AF)I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. 23 (AG)For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them. 24 (AH)You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; (AI)but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their (AJ)memorial stones in pieces. 25 (AK)And you shall serve the Lord your God, [n]and He will bless your bread and your water; and (AL)I will remove sickness from your midst. 26 There will be no one miscarrying or (AM)unable to have children in your land; (AN)I will fulfill the number of your days. 27 I will (AO)send My terror ahead of you, and (AP)throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will (AQ)make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 And I will send (AR)hornets ahead of you so that they will (AS)drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from you. 29 (AT)I will not drive them out from you in a single year, so that the land will not become desolate and the animals of the field become too numerous for you. 30 I will drive them out from you (AU)little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land. 31 (AV)I will set your boundary from the [o]Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River; (AW)for I will hand over the inhabitants of the land to you, and you will (AX)drive them out from you. 32 (AY)You shall [p]make no covenant with them (AZ)or with their gods. 33 (BA)They shall not live in your land, otherwise they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, (BB)it is certain to be a snare to you.”

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:2 Lit many
  2. Exodus 23:2 Or answer
  3. Exodus 23:2 Lit many
  4. Exodus 23:3 Lit honor
  5. Exodus 23:5 Lit him
  6. Exodus 23:8 Or distorts the words
  7. Exodus 23:9 Lit soul
  8. Exodus 23:11 Lit drop
  9. Exodus 23:13 Lit on
  10. Exodus 23:15 Lit it
  11. Exodus 23:15 Lit they shall not
  12. Exodus 23:17 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
  13. Exodus 23:18 Or festival
  14. Exodus 23:25 Or that He may bless
  15. Exodus 23:31 Lit Sea of Reeds
  16. Exodus 23:32 Lit cut

Cross references

  1. Exodus 23:1 : Ex 20:16; Lev 19:11f; Deut 5:20; Ps 101:5; Prov 10:18
  2. Exodus 23:1 : Deut 19:16-21; Ps 35:11; Prov 19:5; Acts 6:11
  3. Exodus 23:2 : Deut 16:19; 24:17
  4. Exodus 23:3 : Ex 23:6; Lev 19:15; Deut 1:17; 16:19
  5. Exodus 23:4 : Deut 22:1-4
  6. Exodus 23:5 : Deut 22:4
  7. Exodus 23:6 : Ex 23:2, 3; Lev 19:15
  8. Exodus 23:7 : Ex 20:16; Ps 119:29; Eph 4:25
  9. Exodus 23:7 : Ex 20:13; Deut 27:25
  10. Exodus 23:7 : Ex 34:7; Deut 25:1; Rom 1:18
  11. Exodus 23:8 : Deut 10:17; 16:19; Prov 15:27; 17:8, 23; Is 5:22, 23
  12. Exodus 23:9 : Ex 22:21; Lev 19:33f; Deut 24:17f; 27:19
  13. Exodus 23:10 : Lev 25:1-7
  14. Exodus 23:12 : Ex 20:8-11; 31:15; 34:21; 35:2, 3; Lev 23:3; Deut 5:13f
  15. Exodus 23:13 : Deut 4:9, 23; 1 Tim 4:16
  16. Exodus 23:13 : Josh 23:7; Ps 16:4; Hos 2:17
  17. Exodus 23:14 : Ex 23:17; 34:22-24; Deut 16:16
  18. Exodus 23:15 : Ex 12:14-20; Lev 23:6-8; Num 28:16-25
  19. Exodus 23:15 : Ex 12:2; 13:4
  20. Exodus 23:15 : Ex 22:29; 34:20
  21. Exodus 23:16 : Ex 34:22; Lev 23:10; Num 28:26
  22. Exodus 23:16 : Lev 23:39
  23. Exodus 23:17 : Ex 23:14; 34:23; Deut 16:16
  24. Exodus 23:18 : Ex 34:25; Lev 2:11
  25. Exodus 23:18 : Ex 12:10; Lev 7:15; Deut 16:4
  26. Exodus 23:19 : Ex 22:29; 34:26; Deut 26:2, 10; Neh 10:35; Prov 3:9
  27. Exodus 23:19 : Deut 14:21
  28. Exodus 23:20 : Ex 3:2; 14:19; 23:23; 32:34; 33:2
  29. Exodus 23:20 : Ex 15:16, 17
  30. Exodus 23:21 : Deut 9:7; Ps 78:40, 56
  31. Exodus 23:21 : Ex 3:14; 6:3; 34:5-7
  32. Exodus 23:22 : Gen 12:3; Num 24:9; Deut 30:7
  33. Exodus 23:23 : Ex 23:20; Josh 24:8, 11
  34. Exodus 23:24 : Ex 20:5; 23:13, 33; Deut 12:30f
  35. Exodus 23:24 : Num 33:52; Deut 7:5; 12:3; 2 Kin 18:4
  36. Exodus 23:24 : Ex 34:13; Lev 26:1; 2 Kin 3:2
  37. Exodus 23:25 : Lev 26:3-13; Deut 6:13; 10:12; 28:1-14; Josh 22:5; 1 Sam 12:20; Matt 4:10
  38. Exodus 23:25 : Ex 15:26; Deut 7:15
  39. Exodus 23:26 : Deut 7:14
  40. Exodus 23:26 : Deut 4:40; Job 5:26
  41. Exodus 23:27 : Gen 35:5; Ex 15:16; Deut 2:25; Josh 2:9
  42. Exodus 23:27 : Deut 7:23
  43. Exodus 23:27 : Ps 18:40; 21:12
  44. Exodus 23:28 : Deut 7:20; Josh 24:12
  45. Exodus 23:28 : Ex 33:2; 34:11
  46. Exodus 23:29 : Deut 7:22
  47. Exodus 23:30 : Deut 7:22
  48. Exodus 23:31 : Gen 15:18; Deut 1:7, 8; 11:24
  49. Exodus 23:31 : Deut 2:36; Josh 21:44
  50. Exodus 23:31 : Josh 24:12, 18
  51. Exodus 23:32 : Ex 34:12; Deut 7:2
  52. Exodus 23:32 : Ex 23:13, 24
  53. Exodus 23:33 : Deut 7:1-5, 16
  54. Exodus 23:33 : Ex 34:12; Deut 12:30; Josh 23:13; Judg 2:3; Ps 106:36

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