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== Shemos (Book of Exodus), Chapter 23 ==

<named id="1"/>1 Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

<named id="2"/>2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou bear witness in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to pervert justice;

<named id="3"/>3 neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.

<named id="4"/>4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

<named id="5"/>5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under its burden, thou shalt forbear to pass by him; thou shalt surely release it with him.

<named id="6"/>6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

<named id="7"/>7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not; for I will not justify the wicked.

<named id="8"/>8 And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

<named id="9"/>9 And a stranger shalt thou not oppress; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

<named id="10"/>10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the increase thereof;

<named id="11"/>11 but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat; and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

<named id="12"/>12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

<named id="13"/>13 And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed; and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

<named id="14"/>14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year.

<named id="15"/>15 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep; seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib--for in it thou camest out from Egypt; and none shall appear before Me empty;

<named id="16"/>16 and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours, which thou sowest in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field.

<named id="17"/>17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the L-rd GOD.

<named id="18"/>18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of My feast remain all night until the morning.

<named id="19"/>19 The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of HaShem thy G-d. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.

<named id="20"/>20 Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

<named id="21"/>21 Take heed of him, and hearken unto his voice; be not rebellious against him; for he will not pardon your transgression; for My name is in him.

<named id="22"/>22 But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

<named id="23"/>23 For Mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.

<named id="24"/>24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their doings; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.

<named id="25"/>25 And ye shall serve HaShem your G-d, and He will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

<named id="26"/>26 None shall miscarry, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days I will fulfil.

<named id="27"/>27 I will send My terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

<named id="28"/>28 And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

<named id="29"/>29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.

<named id="30"/>30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

<named id="31"/>31 And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

<named id="32"/>32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

<named id="33"/>33 They shall not dwell in thy land--lest they make thee sin against Me, for thou wilt serve their gods--for they will be a snare unto thee.

== See also ==
* [[Shemos 22|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Shemos 23 Commentaries]]
* [[Shemos 24|Next Chapter]]

== References ==
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