{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Exodus",
 "chapter": 23,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:"
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "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:)"
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land."
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 32,
   "t": "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods."
  },
  {
   "v": 33,
   "t": "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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