Verse 7
Exodus 23:7
Noah Webster Bible
7
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Original Language Text
hebrew
מִ/דְּבַר שֶׁ֖קֶר תִּרְחָ֑ק וְ/נָקִ֤י וְ/צַדִּיק֙ אַֽל תַּהֲרֹ֔ג כִּ֥י לֹא אַצְדִּ֖יק רָשָֽׁע
English Translation
From a matter of falsehood you shall distance yourself, and a clean and righteous one do not kill, for I will not justify the wicked.
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Chapter 23 Context
1
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thy 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...
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3
Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
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If thou shalt meet thy enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him ag...
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If thou shalt see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to he...
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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...
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 thy ox and thy ass may...
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13
And in all things that I have said to you be circumspect: and make no mention of the names of other...
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14
Three times thou shalt keep a feast to 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 first-fruits of thy labors, 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 (Elohim).
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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
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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20
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for...
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21
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy to thy ene...
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22
For my Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Peri...
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23
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utte...
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24
And ye shall serve the LORD your God (Elohim), and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I wil...
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25
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: I will complete the number of thy...
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26
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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27
And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittit...
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28
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land should become desolate, and th...
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29
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou shalt be increased and inher...
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30
And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert t...
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31
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
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32
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee to sin against me: for if thou shalt serve the...
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