{"reader_html":"<h1 class=\"chapter-heading\">The Second Book of Moses, called Exodus<span class=\"chapter-label\">Chapter 23<\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><span class=\"dropcap-wrap\" data-v=\"1\"><span class=\"dropcap\" title=\"Compare verse 1 across translations\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,1,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">T<\/span>hou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"2\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,2,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">2<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"3\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,3,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">3<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"4\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,4,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">4<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">If thou meet thine enemy&#039;s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"5\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,5,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">5<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"6\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,6,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">6<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"7\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,7,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">7<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"8\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,8,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">8<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"9\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,9,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">9<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"10\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,10,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">10<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"11\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,11,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">11<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"12\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,12,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">12<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"13\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,13,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">13<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"14\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,14,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">14<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"15\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,15,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">15<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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:)<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"16\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,16,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">16<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"17\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,17,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">17<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Three items in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"18\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,18,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">18<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"19\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,19,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">19<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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&#039;s milk.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"20\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,20,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">20<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"21\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,21,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">21<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"22\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,22,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">22<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"23\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,23,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">23<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"24\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,24,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">24<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"25\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,25,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">25<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"26\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,26,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">26<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"27\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,27,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">27<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"28\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,28,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">28<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"29\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,29,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">29<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"30\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,30,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">30<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"31\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,31,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">31<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"32\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,32,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">32<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"33\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,2,23,33,&quot;Exodus&quot;)\">33<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">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.<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-nav\"><a href=\"\/kjv\/1\/2\/22\" class=\"nav-btn-lg nav-ajax\">&lsaquo; Previous<\/a><a href=\"\/kjv\/1\/2\/24\" class=\"nav-btn-lg nav-ajax\">Next &rsaquo;<\/a><\/div>\n","page_title":"The Second Book of Moses, called Exodus, Chapter 23 — King James Version","book_title":"The Second Book of Moses, called Exodus","toolbar_title":"The Second Book of Moses, called Exodus — Ch. 23","prev_url":"\/kjv\/1\/2\/22","next_url":"\/kjv\/1\/2\/24","tid":1,"book_id":2,"chapter":23,"num_chapters":40,"trans":"KJV","is_rtl":false,"strongs_data":{},"bsb_glosses":{},"book_name":"Exodus","canonical_url":"https:\/\/accept.gift\/kjv\/1\/2\/23","meta_desc":"Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 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