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## Exodus 23:1-33 in Context (Verses 1–33 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/exodus/23/1) Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.*
 
 [2 ](/kjv/exodus/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:**
 
 [3 ](/kjv/exodus/23/3) ¶ Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/exodus/23/4) ¶ If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
 
 [5 ](/kjv/exodus/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.*
 
 [6 ](/kjv/exodus/23/6) Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/exodus/23/7) Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/exodus/23/8) ¶ And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.*
 
 [9 ](/kjv/exodus/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.*
 
 [10 ](/kjv/exodus/23/10) And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
 
 [11 ](/kjv/exodus/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.*
 
 [12 ](/kjv/exodus/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.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/exodus/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.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/exodus/23/14) ¶ Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/exodus/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:)
 
 [16 ](/kjv/exodus/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.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/exodus/23/17) Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/exodus/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.*
 
 [19 ](/kjv/exodus/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.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/exodus/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.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/exodus/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.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/exodus/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.*
 
 [23 ](/kjv/exodus/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.
 
 [24 ](/kjv/exodus/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.
 
 [25 ](/kjv/exodus/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.
 
 [26 ](/kjv/exodus/23/26) ¶ There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
 
 [27 ](/kjv/exodus/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.*
 
 [28 ](/kjv/exodus/23/28) And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
 
 [29 ](/kjv/exodus/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.
 
 [30 ](/kjv/exodus/23/30) By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
 
 [31 ](/kjv/exodus/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.
 
 [32 ](/kjv/exodus/23/32) Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
 
 [33 ](/kjv/exodus/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.
 
[Exodus 22](/kjv/exodus/22) [Exodus 24](/kjv/exodus/24)

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