{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/exodus/23","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:00:27.813Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Exodus","bookSlug":"exodus","chapter":23,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":22,"nextChapter":24,"totalChapters":40,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"You shall not raise a false report: put not your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Neither shall you countenance a poor man in his cause."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If you meet your enemy's ox or his ass going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If you see the ass of him that hates you lying under his burden, and would forbear to help him, you shall surely help with him."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"You shall not wrest the judgment of your poor in his cause."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Keep you far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay you not: for I will not justify the wicked."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And you shall take no gift: for the gift blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Also you shall not oppress a stranger: for you know the heart of a stranger, seeing you were strangers in the land of Egypt."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in the fruits thereof:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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 beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard, and with your olive grove."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And in all things that I have said to you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Three times you shall keep a feast to me in the year."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"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:)"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And the feast of harvest, the first fruits 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."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Three items in the year all your males shall appear before the LORD God."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not seethe a kid in his mother's milk."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Behold, I send an Angel before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But if you shall indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For my Angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but you shall utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And you shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless your bread, and your water; and I will take sickness away from the middle of you."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in your land: the number of your days I will fulfill."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"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 to you."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"I will not drive them out from before you in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against you."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"By little and little I will drive them out from before you, until you be increased, and inherit the land."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"And I will set your bounds from the Red sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and you shall drive them out before you."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me: for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."}],"citation":{"inline":"Exodus 23 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Exodus 23](https://primebible.com/akjv/exodus/23)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/exodus/23 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}