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Exodus 23 |
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| 23:1
Thou shalt not raise a false
report: put not thine hand with the wicked to
be an unrighteous witness. |
 (23:1) "Thou shalt not raise a false report."
Is it OK to lie?
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| 23:2
Thou shalt not follow a
multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in
a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: |
(23:2) "Thou shalt not follow a
multitude to do evil"
Don't do what everyone else does, if what they do is
wrong.
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| 23:3
Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. |
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| 23:4
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or
his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. |
(23:4)
"If thou meet thine enemy's ox or
his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again."
How should we treat our enemies?
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| 23:5
If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and
wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him. |
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| 23:6
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in
his cause. |
(23:5) "Thou shalt surely help."
Treat the poor fairly.
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| 23:7
Keep thee far from a false
matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the
wicked. |
(23:7) "Keep thee far from a false
matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not"
Be honest. Don't kill innocent people.
Is it OK to lie?
Is it OK to kill?
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| 23:8
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and
perverteth the words of the righteous.
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| 23:9
Also thou shalt not oppress a
stranger: for ye know the heart of a
stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. |
(23:9)
"Thou shalt not oppress a stranger."
How should strangers be treated?
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| 23:10
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits
thereof: |
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| 23:11
But the seventh year thou
shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor
of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall
eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy
oliveyard. |
(23:11) "That the poor ... may eat"
Every seventh year leave your field unharvested, so that the poor will have something to eat.
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| 23:12
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest:
that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the
stranger, may be refreshed. |
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| 23:13
And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and
make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy
mouth. |
(23:13, 24, 32)
"Make no mention of the name of other gods."
Don't even mention the names of the other gods.
How many gods are there?
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| 23:14
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
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| 23:15
Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt
eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month
Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me
empty:) |
(23:15) "Thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days."
How many days is unleavened bread
to be eaten?
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| 23:16
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast
sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the
year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. |
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| 23:17
Three items in the
year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God. |
 (23:17)
"Three items in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God."
Three times a year God wants to
see all of the males. The females he never wants to see.
 (23:19)
"Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's
milk."
Don't boil a kid in its mother's milk.
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| 23:18
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread;
neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
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| 23:19
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house
of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's
milk.
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| 23:20
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring
thee into the place which I have prepared.
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| 23:21
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon
your transgressions: for my name is in him. |
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| 23:22
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I
will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine
adversaries. |
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| 23:23
For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites,
and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and
the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. |
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| 23:24
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor
serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their
images. |
(23:24) "Thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images."
Religious freedom is not permitted.
Do not allow others to worship a different god. Conquer them and destroy their religious property.
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| 23:25
And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and
thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
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| 23:26
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the
number of thy days I will fulfil. |
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| 23:27
I will send my fear
before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come,
and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. |
 (23:27)
"I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people."
What the Bible says about terrorism
(23:28)
"I will send hornets before thee."
God has hornets that bite and
kill people.
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| 23:28
And I will send
hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite,
and the Hittite, from before thee.
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| 23:29
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land
become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
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| 23:30
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be
increased, and inherit the land.
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| 23:31
And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the
Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the
inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before
thee. |
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| 23:32
Thou shalt make no covenant with them,
nor with their gods. |
(23:32-33) "Thou shalt make no covenant with them nor with their gods.
They shall not dwell in thy land."
Stay away from those that believe differently than you. Do not make treaties
with them or allow them to live in your land.
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| 23:33
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for
if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
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