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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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