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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Exodus 23 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/23.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Exodus 23</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/22.htm" title="Exodus 22">◄</a> Exodus 23 <a href="../exodus/24.htm" title="Exodus 24">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/exodus/23-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Justice and Mercy<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Thou shalt not take up a false report: thou shalt not put thy hand with the unjust one to be a witness of wrong. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Thou shalt not be after multitudes for evil; thou shalt not answer for the multitude to stretch out after multitudes to pervert justice. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the poor one thou shalt not make proud in his cause.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If thou shalt meet thine enemy's ox or his ass wandering, turning back, thou shalt turn him back to him. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If thou shalt see the ass of him hating thee, lying down under his load, and thou didst desist from cutting loose for him, releasing, thou shall release with him.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy needy in his cause. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>From the word of falsehood thou shalt go far away; and the innocent and the just one thou shalt not kill: for I will not justify the unjust one.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And thou shalt not take a gift; for the gift will blind the seeing, and will pervert just words.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Thou shalt not press the stranger: and ye knew the soul of the stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.<p> <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Sabbath Laws<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../leviticus/25.htm">Leviticus 25:1–7</a>; <a href ="../deuteronomy/15.htm">Deuteronomy 15:1–6</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Six years shalt thou sow thy land, and gather its produce: <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the seventh thou shalt remit, and let it be; and the poor of thy people shall eat; and the remains, the beast of the field shall eat. So shalt thou do to thy vineyard and to thy olive tree.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Six days thou shalt do thy works, and in the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox shall rest, and thine ass, and the son of thy maid shall be refreshed, and the stranger. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And in all which I said to you ye shall watch; and ye shall not call to mind the name of other gods; it shall not be heard above thy mouth.<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">The Three Feasts of Pilgrimage<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../leviticus/23.htm">Leviticus 23:1–3</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Three times thou shalt keep a festival to me in the year. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Thou shalt watch the festival of unleavened: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened as I commanded thee according to the appointment of the month Abib; for in it thou camest forth out of Egypt: and they shall not be seen before me empty. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the festival of the harvest, the first fruits of thy works, which thou shalt sow in the field: and the festival of gathering in the going out of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Three times in the year every male of thine shall be seen to the face of the Lord Jehovah.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Thou shalt not sacrifice upon leaven: the blood of my sacrifice, and the fat of my festival shall not remain over till morning.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The sacrifice of the first fruits of thy land thou shalt bring to the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother's milk.<p> <A name="21"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Angel to Lead<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../deuteronomy/7.htm#12">Deuteronomy 7:12–26</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Behold, I send a messenger before thee to guard thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place which I prepared. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Watch from his face, and hear to his voice; thou shalt not rebel against him: he will not lift up your transgression; for my name is in the midst of him. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For if hearing thou shalt hear to his voice, and to all that I shall speak; and I was an enemy to thine enemies, and I was hostile to thine adversaries. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For my messenger shall go before thee, and bring thee to the Amorites, and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I destroyed them. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Thou shalt not worship to their gods, and thou shalt not serve them, and thou shalt not do according to their works: for destroying, thou shalt destroy them, and breaking, thou shalt break in pieces their pillars. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And serve ye Jehovah your God, and he blessed thy bread, and thy waters; and I turned away disease from the midst of thee. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And there shall not be bereaving of children or barren upon thy land: the number of thy days I will fill up. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>I will send my terror before thee and I killed all the people which thou shalt come to them; and I gave all thine enemies the back to thee. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And I sent hornets before thee and to drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I will not drive them out from thy face in one year, lest the land shall be desolate, and the beast of the field multiply upon thee. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>By little and little I will drive them out from thy face, till when thou shalt be fruitful and thou didst inherit the land. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And I put thy bounds from the sea of sedge, and even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert even to the river: for I will give into your hand those inhabiting the land, and thou drove them out from before thee. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Thou shalt not make a covenant with them and to their gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/23-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they shall cause thee to sin against me: if thou shalt serve their gods, surely shall it be to thee for a snare.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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