Verse 2
Exodus 23:2
Young's Literal Translation
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'Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause [others] to turn aside;
Original Language Text
hebrew
לֹֽא תִהְיֶ֥ה אַחֲרֵֽי רַבִּ֖ים לְ/רָעֹ֑ת וְ/לֹא תַעֲנֶ֣ה עַל רִ֗ב לִ/נְטֹ֛ת אַחֲרֵ֥י רַבִּ֖ים לְ/הַטֹּֽת
English Translation
You shall not follow a multitude for evil, and you shall not testify in a dispute to turn aside after a multitude to pervert justice.
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Chapter 23 Context
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'Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent w...
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'Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after man...
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and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.
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'When thou meetest thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou dost certainly turn it back to him...
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when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased...
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'Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;
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from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; fo...
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'And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open -[eyed], and perverteth the words of...
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'And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye -- ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojou...
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'And six years thou dost sow thy land, and hast gathered its increase;
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and the seventh thou dost release it, and hast left it, and the needy of thy people have eaten, and...
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'Six days thou dost do thy work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest, so that thine ox and thine a...
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and in all that which I have said unto you ye do take heed; and the name of other gods ye do not men...
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'Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year;
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the Feast of Unleavened things thou dost keep; seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, as I have...
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and the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of thy works which thou sowest in the field; and the Feas...
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'Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the face of the Lord Jehovah.
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'Thou dost not sacrifice on a fermented thing the blood of My sacrifice, and the fat of My festival...
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the beginning of the first-fruits of thy ground thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God (E...
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'Lo, I am sending a messenger before thee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee in unto the pla...
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be watchful because of his presence, and hearken to his voice, rebel not against him, for he beareth...
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for, if thou diligently hearken to his voice, and hast done all that which I speak, then I have been...
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23
'For My messenger goeth before thee, and hath brought thee in unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and...
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24
'Thou dost not bow thyself to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their doings, but dost...
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'And ye have served Jehovah your God (Elohim), and He hath blessed thy bread and thy water, and I ha...
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there is not a miscarrying and barren one in thy land; the number of thy days I fulfil:
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My terror I send before thee, and I have put to death all the people among whom thou comest, and I h...
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'And I have sent the hornet before thee, and it hath cast out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hit...
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I cast them not out from before thee in one year, lest the land be a desolation, and the beast of th...
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little [by] little I cast them out from before thee, till thou art fruitful, and hast inherited the...
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'And I have set thy border from the Red Sea, even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wild...
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thou dost not make a covenant with them, and with their gods;
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they do not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against Me when thou servest their gods,...
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