{"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/asv/exodus/23","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T22:27:31.904Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ASV","book":"Exodus","bookSlug":"exodus","chapter":23,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":22,"nextChapter":24,"totalChapters":40,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest justice :"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release it with him."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And a sojourner shalt thou not oppress: for ye know the heart of a sojourner, seeing ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it thou camest out from Egypt); and none shall appear before me empty:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sowest in the field: and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labors out of the field."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in it mother's milk."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Take ye heed before him, and hearken unto his voice; provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgression: for my name is in him."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: and I will cut them off."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And ye shall serve Jehovah your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"I will send my terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand: and thou shalt drive them out before thee."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"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."}],"citation":{"inline":"Exodus 23 (ASV)","markdown":"[Exodus 23](https://primebible.com/asv/exodus/23)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ASV. https://primebible.com/asv/exodus/23 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}