Verse 2
Exodus 23:2
King James Version
2
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to
do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest
judgment:
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
1
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness...
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Thou shalt not follow a multitude to
do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after m...
3
Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
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4
If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
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5
If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him...
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6
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
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7
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not just...
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8
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteo...
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9
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were stranger...
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10
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
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11
But the seventh
year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and...
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12
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass...
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13
And in all
things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other...
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14
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
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15
Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I com...
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16
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the...
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17
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
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18
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacr...
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19
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God (Elohim...
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20
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which...
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21
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for...
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22
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine...
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23
For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the...
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24
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utte...
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25
And ye shall serve the LORD your God (Elohim), and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I wi...
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26
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulf...
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27
I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will...
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28
And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittit...
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29
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast...
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30
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit th...
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31
And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert...
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32
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
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33
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods,...
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