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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. |
"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: |
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. |
"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. |
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. |
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. |
"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. |
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)
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:) |
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. |
Three times a year God wants to
see all of the males. The females he never wants to see.
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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. |
Don't boil a kid in its 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. |
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. |
"I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people."
What the Bible says about terrorism
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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. |
I will send hornets before thee."
God has hornets that bite and
kill people.
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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. |
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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