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Exodus 23

33 aligned verses; 33 with wording or punctuation differences .

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“You shall not spread a false report . Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
`Thou dost not lift up a vain report ; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.
You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit , do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.
`Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife , to turn aside after many to cause `others' to turn aside;
And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit .
and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife .
If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey , you must return it to him .
`When thou meetest thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray , thou dost certainly turn it back to him ;
If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load , do not leave it there; you must help him with it .
when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden , then thou hast ceased from leaving `it' to it -- thou dost certainly leave ` it ' with him .
You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.
`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;
Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just , for I will not acquit the guilty .
from a false matter thou dost keep far off , and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man .
Do not accept a bribe , for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
`And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open-`eyed', and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Do not oppress a foreign resident , since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
`And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye -- ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.
For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,
`And six years thou dost sow thy land , and hast gathered its increase;
but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow , so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove .
and the seventh thou dost release it , and hast left it , and the needy of thy people have eaten, and their leaving doth the beast of the field eat; so dost thou to thy vineyard -- to thine olive -yard .
For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease , so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
` Six days thou dost do thy work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest , so that thine ox and thine ass doth rest , and the son of thine handmaid and the sojourner is refreshed;
Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips .
and in all that which I have said unto you ye do take heed; and the name of other gods ye do not mention ; it is not heard on thy mouth .
Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me .
` Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year;
You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt . No one may appear before Me empty -handed.
the Feast of Unleavened things thou dost keep; seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, as I have commanded thee, at the time appointed ` in ' the month of Abib ; for in it thou hast come forth out of Egypt , and ye do not appear `in' My presence empty ;
You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field . And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
and the Feast of Harvest , the first fruits of thy works which thou sowest in the field ; and the Feast of the In-Gathering, in the outgoing of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field.
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD .
` Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the face of the Lord Jehovah .
You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened , nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning .
`Thou dost not sacrifice on a fermented thing the blood of My sacrifice , and the fat of My festival doth not remain till morning ;
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God . You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
the beginning of the first-fruits of thy ground thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God ; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
Behold , I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared .
`Lo , I am sending a messenger before thee to keep thee in the way , and to bring thee in unto the place which I have prepared ;
Pay attention to him and listen to his voice ; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion , since My Name is in him.
be watchful because of his presence, and hearken to his voice , rebel not against him, for he beareth not with your transgression , for My name ` is ' in his heart;
But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say , I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes .
for, if thou diligently hearken to his voice , and hast done all that which I speak , then I have been at enmity with thine enemies , and have distressed those distressing thee .
For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites , Hittites , Perizzites , Canaanites , Hivites , and Jebusites , and I will annihilate them.
` For My messenger goeth before thee, and hath brought thee in unto the Amorite , and the Hittite , and the Perizzite , and the Canaanite , the Hivite , and the Jebusite , and I have cut them off .
You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead , you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces .
`Thou dost not bow thyself to their gods , nor serve them, nor do according to their doings, but dost utterly devote them , and thoroughly break their standing pillars .
So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water . And I will take away sickness from among you.
`And ye have served Jehovah your God, and He hath blessed thy bread and thy water , and I have turned aside sickness from thine heart;
No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren ; I will fulfill the number of your days .
there is not a miscarrying and barren one in thy land; the number of thy days I fulfil:
I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run .
My terror I send before thee, and I have put to death all the people among whom thou comest, and I have given the neck of all thine enemies unto thee .
I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
`And I have sent the hornet before thee, and it hath cast out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee;
I will not drive them out before you in a single year ; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.
I cast them not out from before thee in one year , lest the land be a desolation, and the beast of the field hath multiplied against thee;
Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you , until you become fruitful and possess the land.
little ` by ' little I cast them out from before thee , till thou art fruitful , and hast inherited the land.
And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
` And I have set thy border from the Red Sea , even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I give into your hand the inhabitants of the land , and thou hast cast them out from before thee;
You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods .
thou dost not make a covenant with them , and with their gods ;
They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me . For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you .
they do not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against Me when thou servest their gods, when it becometh a snare to thee . '

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