{"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/kjv/exodus/23","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:14:14.114Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Exodus","bookSlug":"exodus","chapter":23,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":22,"nextChapter":24,"totalChapters":40,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Thou shalt not follow a multitude to <i>do</i> evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest <i>judgment</i>:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Neither shalt thou countenance 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, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of 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 gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"But the seventh <i>year</i> thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, <i>and</i> 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 rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And in all <i>things</i> that I have said unto you be circumspect: 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":"Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of 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 firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, <i>which is</i> in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Thou shalt 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 firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee 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 <i>is</i> in him."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But if thou shalt indeed obey 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 Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, <i>and</i> 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 works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy 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 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 be increased, and inherit 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 desert 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 (KJV)","markdown":"[Exodus 23](https://primebible.com/kjv/exodus/23)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/exodus/23 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}