Exodus 23 - New International Version (NIV)

Laws of Justice and Mercy

23 “Do not spread false reports.(A) Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.(B)

2 “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice(C) by siding with the crowd,(D) 3 and do not show favoritism(E) to a poor person in a lawsuit.

4 “If you come across your enemy’s(F) ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it.(G) 5 If you see the donkey(H) of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.

6 “Do not deny justice(I) to your poor people in their lawsuits. 7 Have nothing to do with a false charge(J) and do not put an innocent(K) or honest person to death,(L) for I will not acquit the guilty.(M)

8 “Do not accept a bribe,(N) for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.

9 “Do not oppress a foreigner;(O) you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.

Sabbath Laws

10 “For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, 11 but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused.(P) Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

12 “Six days do your work,(Q) but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.(R)

13 “Be careful(S) to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods;(T) do not let them be heard on your lips.(U)

The Three Annual Festivals

14 “Three times(V) a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.

15 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread;(W) for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv,(X) for in that month you came out of Egypt.

“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.(Y)

16 “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest(Z) with the firstfruits(AA) of the crops you sow in your field.

“Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering(AB) at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.(AC)

17 “Three times(AD) a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord.

18 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast.(AE)

“The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.(AF)

19 “Bring the best of the firstfruits(AG) of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.(AH)

God’s Angel to Prepare the Way

20 “See, I am sending an angel(AI) ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.(AJ) 21 Pay attention to him and listen(AK) to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive(AL) your rebellion,(AM) since my Name(AN) is in him. 22 If you listen carefully to what he says and do(AO) all that I say, I will be an enemy(AP) to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. 23 My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites,(AQ) and I will wipe them out. 24 Do not bow down before their gods or worship(AR) them or follow their practices.(AS) You must demolish(AT) them and break their sacred stones(AU) to pieces. 25 Worship the Lord your God,(AV) and his blessing(AW) will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness(AX) from among you, 26 and none will miscarry or be barren(AY) in your land. I will give you a full life span.(AZ)

27 “I will send my terror(BA) ahead of you and throw into confusion(BB) every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run.(BC) 28 I will send the hornet(BD) ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites(BE) out of your way. 29 But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals(BF) too numerous for you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession(BG) of the land.

31 “I will establish your borders from the Red Sea[a] to the Mediterranean Sea,[b] and from the desert to the Euphrates River.(BH) I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out(BI) before you. 32 Do not make a covenant(BJ) with them or with their gods. 33 Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare(BK) to you.”

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:31 Or the Sea of Reeds
  2. Exodus 23:31 Hebrew to the Sea of the Philistines

Cross references

  1. Exodus 23:1 : S Ge 39:17; Mt 19:18; Lk 3:14
  2. Exodus 23:1 : S Ex 20:16; Dt 5:20; 19:16-21; Ps 27:12; 35:11; Pr 19:5; Ac 6:11
  3. Exodus 23:2 : ver 3, 6, 9; Lev 19:15, 33; Dt 1:17; 16:19; 24:17; 27:19; 1Sa 8:3
  4. Exodus 23:2 : Job 31:34
  5. Exodus 23:3 : Dt 1:17
  6. Exodus 23:4 : Ro 12:20
  7. Exodus 23:4 : Lev 6:3; 19:11; Dt 22:1-3
  8. Exodus 23:5 : Dt 22:4
  9. Exodus 23:6 : S ver 2; Dt 23:16; Pr 22:22
  10. Exodus 23:7 : S Ex 20:16; S Eph 4:25
  11. Exodus 23:7 : Mt 27:4
  12. Exodus 23:7 : S Ge 18:23
  13. Exodus 23:7 : Ex 34:7; Dt 19:18; 25:1
  14. Exodus 23:8 : S Ex 18:21; Lev 19:15; Dt 10:17; 27:25; Job 15:34; 36:18; Ps 26:10; Pr 6:35; 15:27; 17:8; Isa 1:23; 5:23; Mic 3:11; 7:3
  15. Exodus 23:9 : S ver 2; S Ex 22:21; Lev 19:33-34; Eze 22:7
  16. Exodus 23:11 : Lev 25:1-7; Ne 10:31
  17. Exodus 23:12 : S Ex 20:9; Lk 13:14
  18. Exodus 23:12 : Ge 2:2-3
  19. Exodus 23:13 : Dt 4:9, 23; 1Ti 4:16
  20. Exodus 23:13 : ver 32; Dt 12:3; Jos 23:7; Ps 16:4; Zec 13:2
  21. Exodus 23:13 : Dt 18:20; Jos 23:7; Ps 16:4; Hos 2:17
  22. Exodus 23:14 : ver 17; S Ex 12:14; 34:23, 24; Dt 16:16; 1Ki 9:25; 2Ch 8:13; Eze 46:9
  23. Exodus 23:15 : S Ex 12:17; Mt 26:17; Lk 22:1; Ac 12:3
  24. Exodus 23:15 : S Ex 12:2
  25. Exodus 23:15 : S Ex 22:29
  26. Exodus 23:16 : Lev 23:15-21; Nu 28:26; Dt 16:9; 2Ch 8:13
  27. Exodus 23:16 : S Ex 22:29; S 34:22
  28. Exodus 23:16 : Ex 34:22; Lev 23:34, 42; Dt 16:16; 31:10; Ezr 3:4; Ne 8:14; Zec 14:16
  29. Exodus 23:16 : Lev 23:39; Dt 16:13; Jer 40:10
  30. Exodus 23:17 : S ver 14
  31. Exodus 23:18 : Ex 34:25; Lev 2:11
  32. Exodus 23:18 : S Ex 12:8
  33. Exodus 23:19 : S Ex 22:29; S 34:22; S Nu 18:12
  34. Exodus 23:19 : Ex 34:26; Dt 14:21
  35. Exodus 23:20 : S Ge 16:7
  36. Exodus 23:20 : Ex 15:17
  37. Exodus 23:21 : Dt 18:19; Jer 13:15
  38. Exodus 23:21 : Dt 29:20; 2Ki 24:4; La 1:17
  39. Exodus 23:21 : Nu 17:10; Dt 9:7; 31:27; Jos 24:19; Ps 25:7; 78:8, 40, 56; 106:33; 107:11; 1Jn 5:16
  40. Exodus 23:21 : S Ex 3:15
  41. Exodus 23:22 : S Ex 15:26
  42. Exodus 23:22 : S Ge 12:3; Isa 41:11; Jer 30:20
  43. Exodus 23:23 : Nu 13:29; 21:21; Jos 3:10; 24:8, 11; Ezr 9:1; Ps 135:11
  44. Exodus 23:24 : S Ex 20:5
  45. Exodus 23:24 : Lev 18:3; 20:23; Dt 9:4; 12:30-31; Jer 10:2
  46. Exodus 23:24 : Ex 34:13; Nu 33:52; Dt 7:5; 12:3; Jdg 2:2; 2Ki 18:4; 23:14
  47. Exodus 23:24 : Lev 26:1; Dt 16:22; 1Ki 14:23; 2Ki 3:2; 10:26; 17:10; 2Ch 14:3; Isa 27:9
  48. Exodus 23:25 : Mt 4:10
  49. Exodus 23:25 : Lev 26:3-13; Dt 7:12-15; 28:1-14
  50. Exodus 23:25 : S Ex 15:26
  51. Exodus 23:26 : Lev 26:3-4; Dt 7:14; 28:4; Mal 3:11
  52. Exodus 23:26 : S Ge 15:15; Dt 4:1, 40; 32:47; Ps 90:10
  53. Exodus 23:27 : S Ge 35:5; S Ex 15:14
  54. Exodus 23:27 : S Ex 14:24; Dt 7:23
  55. Exodus 23:27 : 2Sa 22:41; Ps 18:40; 21:12
  56. Exodus 23:28 : Dt 7:20; Jos 24:12
  57. Exodus 23:28 : Ex 33:2; 34:11, 24; Nu 13:29; Dt 4:38; 11:23; 18:12; Jos 3:10; 24:11; Ps 78:55
  58. Exodus 23:29 : Dt 7:22
  59. Exodus 23:30 : Jos 23:5
  60. Exodus 23:31 : S Ge 2:14; Dt 34:2; Ezr 4:20
  61. Exodus 23:31 : Dt 7:24; 9:3; Jos 21:44; 24:12, 18; Ps 80:8
  62. Exodus 23:32 : S Ge 26:28; Ex 34:12; Dt 7:2; Jos 9:7; Jdg 2:2; 1Sa 11:1; 1Ki 15:19; 20:34; Eze 17:13
  63. Exodus 23:33 : S Ex 10:7

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