EXODUS 23 Parallel KJV
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KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)


1  Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

2  Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

3  Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

4  If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

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.

6  Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

7  Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

8  And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

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.

10  And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

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.

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.

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.

14  Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

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:)

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.

17  Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

18  Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

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.

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.

21  Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

26  There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

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.

28  And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

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.

30  By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

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.

32  Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

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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1  Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to bee an vnrighteous witnesse.

2  ¶ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to doe euill: neither shalt thou speake in a cause, to decline after many, to wrest iudgement:

3  ¶ Neither shalt thou countenance a poore man in his cause.

4  ¶ If thou meete thine enemies oxe or his asse going astray, thou shalt surely bring it backe to him againe.

5  If thou see the asse of him that hateth thee, lying vnder his burden, and wouldest forbeare to helpe him, thou shalt surely helpe with him.

6  Thou shalt not wrest the iudgement of thy poore in his cause.

7  Keepe thee farre from a false matter: and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not iustifie the wicked.

8  ¶ And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the words of the righteous.

9  ¶ Also thou shalt not oppresse a stranger: for yee know the heart of a stranger, seeing yee were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10  And sixe yeres thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruites thereof:

11  But the seuenth yeere thou shalt let it rest, and lie still, that the poore of thy people may eate, and what they leaue, the beasts of the field shall eate. In like maner thou shalt deale with thy vineyard, and with thy oliue yard.

12  Sixe dayes thou shalt doe thy worke, and on the seuenth day thou shalt rest: that thine oxe and thine asse may rest, and the sonne of thy handmayd, & the stranger may be refreshed.

13  And in all things that I haue said vnto you, be circumspect: and make no mention of the names of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

14  ¶ Three times thou shalt keepe a feast vnto me in the yeere.

15  Thou shalt keepe the feast of vnleauened bread: thou shalt eate vnleauened bread seuen daies, as I commanded thee in the time appointed of the moneth Abib: for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appeare before me emptie:

16  And the feast of haruest, the first fruits of thy labours, which thou hast sowen in the field: and the feast of ingathering which is in the end of the yeere, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

17  Three times in the yeere all thy males shall appeare before the Lord God.

18  Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leauened bread, neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remaine vntill the morning.

19  The first of the first fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mothers milke.

20  ¶ Behold, I send an Angel before thee to keepe thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I haue prepared.

21  Beware of him, and obey his voice, prouoke him not: for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

22  But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and doe all that I speake, then I wil be an enemie vnto thine enemies, and an aduersarie vnto thine aduersaries.

23  For mine Angel shall goe before thee, and bring thee in vnto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites: and I will cut them off.

24  Thou shalt not bow downe to their gods, nor serue them, nor doe after their workes: but thou shalt vtterly ouerthrowe them, and quite breake downe their images.

25  And yee shall serue the Lord your God, and he shall blesse thy bread, and thy water: and I will take sicknes away from the midst of thee.

26  ¶ There shall nothing cast their yong, nor bee barren in thy land: the number of thy dayes I will fulfill.

27  I will send my feare before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turne their backes vnto thee.

28  And I will send hornets before thee, which shall driue out the Hiuite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee.

29  I will not driue them out from before thee in one yeere, lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

30  By little and little I will driue them out from before thee, vntill thou be increased and inherit the land.

31  And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea, euen vnto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert vnto the riuer: for I will deliuer the inhabitants of the land into your hand: and thou shalt driue them out before thee.

32  Thou shalt make no couenant with them, nor with their gods.

33  They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sinne against me: for if thou serue their gods, it will surely be a snare vnto thee.