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Exodus
Chapter 23
{Prohibition
Against Trouble Makers}
1~~You
shall not raise a false report.
Put
not your hand with the wicked
to
be an unrighteous witness.
{Prohibition
Against Mobs - Riots}
2~~You
shall not follow a mob/multitude to do evil;
neither
shall you speak in a cause
to
decline . . .
after
many to rest.
{do not get involved in anything that causes your nation to go
against Biblical policies for a nation.}
{Note:
Verse is prohibiting 'mob justice'. God says to follow the legal
system of the land.}
{Verses
3-6: Principle of No Socialism}
3~~Neither
shall you keep on 'showing partiality'
to
a needy/weaker/poor {man} in his dispute.
{Note:
Just because he is 'considered downtrodden' by society, he should
NOT be shown preference by the national entity. This would prohibit
'affirmative action' and legal cases where the minorities are given
money because 'the rich can afford it'. And, no socialism! All people
are to be treated equally under the Law!}
{Return
Property - Even if to Enemy}
4~~If
you meet your enemy's ox
or
his ass going astray,
you
shall surely bring it back to him again.
5
If you see the ass of him who hates you
lying
under his burden,
and
would forbear to help him,
you
shall surely help with him.
{Do
Not Distort Justice in Favor of the Poor Either!}
6~~You
shall not 'cause to be pulled away'
the
judgment of your needy/weaker/poor {man}
in
his dispute/controversy/cause.
7
Keep you far from a perjury/false/misleading 'communication';
and
the innocent and righteous slay you not
for
I will not justify the wicked.
8
And you shall take no bribe/gift . . .
for
the bribe/gift blinds the wise,
and
perverts the words of the righteous.
9~~Also
you shall not oppress a stranger . . .
for
you know the heart of a stranger,
seeing
you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
{Verses
10-11: Sabbath Year Every Seventh Year}
10~~And
six years you shall sow your land,
and
shall gather in the fruits thereof.
{business in an agricultural society}
11~~But
the seventh year
you
shall let it rest and lie still;
that
the poor of your people may eat
and
what they leave
the
animal/beasts of the field shall eat.
In
like manner you shall deal with your vineyard,
and
with your olive-yard.
{Note: The Jews were to store up goods for the six years. In the seventh year only the poor and animals can go onto your land to eat and survive. They were to live on their reserves and the chemistry of the land would be restored. So the seeds still grow, but it is the poor and animals who live off of the 7th year's produce.}
12
Six days you shall do your work,
and
on the seventh day you shall rest . . .
that
your ox and your ass may rest,
and
the son of your 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/'elohiym,
neither
let it be heard out of your mouth.
14 Three times you shall keep a feast unto Me in the year.
15
You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread:
(You
shall eat unleavened bread seven days,
as
I commanded you,
in
the time appointed of the month Abib;
for
in it you came out from Egypt
and
none shall appear before Me empty)
16
And the feast of harvest,
the
firstfruits of your labors,
which
you have sown in the field
and
the feast of ingathering,
which
is in the end of the year,
when
you have gathered in your labors out of the field.
17
Three times in the year
all
your males shall appear before
the
Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God.
18
You shall 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 your land
you
shall bring into the house of Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead.
You shall not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
{A
Christology - Jesus Christ as the Angel of Jehovah}
20
Behold, I send an Angel before you,
to
keep you in the Way,
and
to bring you 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 you shall indeed obey His voice,
and
do all who I speak;
then
I will be an enemy unto your enemies,
and
an adversary unto your adversaries.
23
For My Angel shall go before you,
and
bring you 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
You shall not bow down to their gods/'elohiym,
nor
serve them, nor do after their works
but
you shall utterly overthrow them,
and
quite break down their images.
25
And you shall serve Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead,
and
he shall bless your bread, and your water;
and
I will take sickness away from the middle of you all.
26
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in your land
the
number of your days I will fulfil.
27
I will send my fear before you,
and
will destroy all the people to whom you shall come,
and
I will make all your enemies turn their backs unto you all.
28
And I will send hornets before you,
which
shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite,
from
before you all.
29
I will not drive them out from before you in one year;
lest
the land become desolate,
and
the animal/beast of the field multiply against you all.
30
By little and little
I
will drive them out from before you,
until
you be increased, and inherit the land.
31
And I will set your 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
you shall drive them out before you all.
32~~You
shall make no covenant with them,
nor
with their gods/'elohiym.
{Note: See Joshua 9:6 for this problem.}
33
They shall not dwell in your land,
lest
they make you sin against Me
for
if you serve their gods/'elohiym,
it
will surely be a snare unto you all.
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