{"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/dbt/exodus/23","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:16:34.782Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Exodus","bookSlug":"exodus","chapter":23,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":22,"nextChapter":24,"totalChapters":40,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Thou shalt not accept a false report; extend not thy hand to the wicked, to be an unrighteous witness."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Thou shalt not follow the multitude for evil; neither shalt thou answer in a cause, to go after the multitude to pervert judgment."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt certainly bring it back to him."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under its burden, beware of leaving it to him: thou shalt certainly loosen it with him."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy poor in his cause."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Thou shalt keep far from the cause of falsehood; and the innocent and righteous slay not; for I will not justify the wicked."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And thou shalt take no bribe; for the bribe blindeth those whose eyes are open, and perverteth the words of the righteous."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And the stranger thou shalt not oppress; for ye know the spirit of the stranger, for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in its produce;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"but in the seventh thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat of it; and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thine olive-tree."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Six days thou shalt do thy work, but 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."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And ye shall be on your guard as to everything that I have said unto you; and shall make no mention of the name of other gods it shall not be heard in thy mouth."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Thrice in the year thou shalt celebrate a feast to me."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread, (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I have commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt; and none shall appear in my presence empty;)"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours which thou hast sown in the field, and the feast of in-gathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the presence of 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 land thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place that I have prepared."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Be careful in his presence, and hearken unto his voice: do not provoke him, for he will not forgive your transgressions; for my name is in him."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But if thou shalt diligently hearken unto his voice, and do all that I shall say, then I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their deeds; but thou shalt utterly destroy them, and utterly shatter their statues."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And ye shall serve Jehovah your God; and he shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take sickness away from thy midst."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days will I fulfil."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"I will send my fear before thee, and confound every people to which thou comest, and will make all thine enemies turn their back to thee."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And I will send hornets 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 beast of the field multiply against thee."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou art fruitful, and possess the land."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the river; for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, that thou mayest dispossess them from 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 is sure to be a snare unto thee."}],"citation":{"inline":"Exodus 23 (DBT)","markdown":"[Exodus 23](https://primebible.com/dbt/exodus/23)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/exodus/23 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}