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    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 23
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 23,
    "bookSlug": "exodus",
    "bookCode": "EXO",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "EXO-23:1",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.1",
        "text": "Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "EXO-23:2",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.2",
        "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]:"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "EXO-23:3",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.3",
        "text": "neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "EXO-23:4",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.4",
        "text": "If thou meet thine enemy`s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "EXO-23:5",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.5",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "EXO-23:6",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.6",
        "text": "Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to thy poor in his cause."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "EXO-23:7",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.7",
        "text": "Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "EXO-23:8",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.8",
        "text": "And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "EXO-23:9",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.9",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "EXO-23:10",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.10",
        "text": "And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof:"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "EXO-23:11",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.11",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "EXO-23:12",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.12",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "EXO-23:13",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.13",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "EXO-23:14",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.14",
        "text": "Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "EXO-23:15",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.15",
        "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:"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "EXO-23:16",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.16",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "EXO-23:17",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.17",
        "text": "Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "EXO-23:18",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.18",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "EXO-23:19",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.19",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "EXO-23:20",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.20",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "EXO-23:21",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.21",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "EXO-23:22",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.22",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "EXO-23:23",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.23",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "EXO-23:24",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.24",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "EXO-23:25",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.25",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "EXO-23:26",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.26",
        "text": "There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "EXO-23:27",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.27",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "EXO-23:28",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.28",
        "text": "And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "EXO-23:29",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.29",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "EXO-23:30",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.30",
        "text": "By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "EXO-23:31",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.31",
        "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."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "EXO-23:32",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.32",
        "text": "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "EXO-23:33",
        "verseRef": "Exod.23.33",
        "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."
      }
    ]
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