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    Exodus 23

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    Even an enemy’s overloaded donkey turns hatred into a duty of assistance: the animal must not be left under its burden, and neither may the man who owns it.

    Justice, mercy, and a day offvv. 1–13

    False reports, crowd-following, favoritism, bribes, and crooked accusations are all barred; justice is not to be bent toward either the crowd or the poor. Yet the law is wonderfully practical about animals: an enemy’s stray ox or donkey must be returned, and a donkey fallen under its load must be helped, even when its owner is a hater. The foreign resident is not to be oppressed, Israel’s own foreignness in Egypt being brought in as the reason. Fields rest in the seventh year so that the poor and the wild animals may eat, while the seventh day lets ox, donkey, servant, and foreign resident breathe. Then, after all this careful attention to neighbours, beasts, crops, and workers, comes the brisk warning that other gods must not even get a hearing on the lips.

    Three feasts, and one unexplained suppervv. 14–19

    Three times a year, the males are to appear before the LORD, with feasts arranged around unleavened bread, firstfruits, harvest, and ingathering. No one is to arrive empty-handed, and the best of the soil’s firstfruits belongs at the house of the LORD. The blood of the sacrifices is not to meet anything leavened, the feast’s fat is not to linger until morning, and a young goat is not to be cooked in its mother’s milk. The rule gives no explanation, which leaves the little goat standing in the doorway of the passage, memorably specific and entirely silent about itself.

    The angel, the hornet, and the leisurely conquestvv. 20–33

    An angel goes ahead to protect Israel and bring the people to a prepared place; the voice is to be heeded because the divine Name is in him. The promise then widens into a campaign against the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, with their gods and sacred stones to be demolished. The most surprising member of the advancing host is a hornet, sent ahead to drive out the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites. Even so, the expulsion is not to happen in a single year: too much empty land would invite wild animals, so the nations are driven out little by little until Israel becomes fruitful and possesses the land. The borders finally stretch from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. The inhabitants are to be driven out, and no covenant is to be made with them or their gods, lest they become a snare.

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    1. Exod 23:1“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.

    2. Exod 23:2You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.

    3. Exod 23:3And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.

    4. Exod 23:4If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.

    5. Exod 23:5If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.

    6. Exod 23:6You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.

    7. Exod 23:7Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.

    8. Exod 23:8Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.

    9. Exod 23:9Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

    10. Exod 23:10For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,

    11. Exod 23:11but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

    12. Exod 23:12For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.

    13. Exod 23:13Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.

    14. Exod 23:14Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.

    15. Exod 23:15You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.

    16. Exod 23:16You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.

    17. Exod 23:17Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.

    18. Exod 23:18You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.

    19. Exod 23:19Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

    20. Exod 23:20Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.

    21. Exod 23:21Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.

    22. Exod 23:22But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

    23. Exod 23:23For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.

    24. Exod 23:24You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.

    25. Exod 23:25So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.

    26. Exod 23:26No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.

    27. Exod 23:27I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.

    28. Exod 23:28I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.

    29. Exod 23:29I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.

    30. Exod 23:30Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.

    31. Exod 23:31And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

    32. Exod 23:32You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

    33. Exod 23:33They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

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    • 25Deuteronomy 7:15And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
    • 20Exodus 33:14And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
    • 25Exodus 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
    • 20Psalms 91:11For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
    • 25Joshua 22:5But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
    • 20Exodus 32:34Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”
    • 25Isaiah 33:24And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.
    • 25Psalms 103:3He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
    • 20Exodus 33:2And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
    • 25Deuteronomy 7:13He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
    • 20Isaiah 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
    • 26Deuteronomy 7:14You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.
    • 251 Samuel 12:20“Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “Even though you have committed all this evil, do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.
    • 25Matthew 4:10“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus told him. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
    • 20John 14:3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.
    • 26Deuteronomy 28:4The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

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