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Book of Exodus, Chapter 23

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Exodus 23 NASB - New American Standard BibleExodus 23 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 23 of Exodus—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ “1You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a 2malicious witness.
  2. You shall not follow [a]the masses in doing evil, nor shall you [b]testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after [c]a multitude in order to 3pervert justice;
  3. 4nor shall you [d]be partial to a poor man in his dispute.
  4. ¶ “5If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.
  5. 6If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him.
  6. ¶ “7You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.
  7. 8Keep far from a false charge, and 9do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for 10I will not acquit the guilty.
  8. ¶ “11You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and [e]subverts the cause of the just.
  9. ¶ “12You shall not oppress a [f]stranger, since you yourselves know the [g]feelings of a [h]stranger, for you also were [i]strangers in the land of Egypt.
  10. ¶ “13You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield,
  11. but on the seventh year you shall let it [j]rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
  12. ¶ “14Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as [k]your stranger, may refresh themselves.
  13. Now 15concerning everything which I have said to you, be on your guard; and 16do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard [l]from your mouth.
  14. ¶ “17Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.
  15. You shall observe 18the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the 19month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And [m]20none shall appear before Me empty-handed.
  16. Also you shall observe 21the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year 22when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field.
  17. 23Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord [n]GOD.
  18. ¶ “24You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; 25nor is the fat of My [o]feast to remain overnight until morning.
  19. ¶ “You shall bring 26the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God.
    ¶ “27You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.
  20. ¶ “Behold, I am going to send 28an angel before you to guard you along the way and 29to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
  21. Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; 30do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since 31My name is in him.
  22. But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then 32I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
  23. 33For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them.
  24. 34You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; 35but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their 36sacred pillars in pieces.
  25. 37But you shall serve the LORD your God, [p]and He will bless your bread and your water; and 38I will remove sickness from your midst.
  26. There shall be no one miscarrying or 39barren in your land; 40I will fulfill the number of your days.
  27. I will 41send My terror ahead of you, and 42throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will 43make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
  28. I will send 44hornets ahead of you so that they will 45drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you.
  29. 46I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.
  30. I will drive them out before you 47little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land.
  31. 48I will fix your boundary from the [q]Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; 49for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will 50drive them out before you.
  32. 51You shall [r]make no covenant with them 52or with their gods.
  33. 53They shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, 54it will surely be a snare to you.”

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit many men
  2. ^ Or answer
  3. ^ Lit many men
  4. ^ Lit honor
  5. ^ Or distorts the words
  6. ^ Or sojourner(s)
  7. ^ Lit soul
  8. ^ Or sojourner(s)
  9. ^ Or sojourner(s)
  10. ^ Lit drop
  11. ^ Lit the sojourner
  12. ^ Lit on
  13. ^ Lit they...not
  14. ^ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
  15. ^ Or festival
  16. ^ Or that He may bless
  17. ^ Lit Sea of Reeds
  18. ^ Lit cut

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ex 20:16; Le 19:11f; De 5:20; Ps 101:5; Pr 10:18
  2. ^ De 19:16-21; Ps 35:11; Pr 19:5; Ac 6:11
  3. ^ De 16:19; 24:17
  4. ^ Ex 23:6; Le 19:15; De 1:17; 16:19
  5. ^ De 22:1-4
  6. ^ De 22:4
  7. ^ Ex 23:2, 3; Le 19:15
  8. ^ Ex 20:16; Ps 119:29; Eph 4:25
  9. ^ Ex 20:13; De 27:25
  10. ^ Ex 34:7; De 25:1; Ro 1:18
  11. ^ De 10:17; 16:19; Pr 15:27; 17:8, 23; Is 5:22, 23
  12. ^ Ex 22:21; Le 19:33f; De 24:17f; 27:19
  13. ^ Le 25:1-7
  14. ^ Ex 20:8-11; 31:15; 34:21; 35:2, 3; Le 23:3; De 5:13f
  15. ^ De 4:9, 23; 1Ti 4:16
  16. ^ Jos 23:7; Ps 16:4; Ho 2:17
  17. ^ Ex 23:17; 34:22-24; De 16:16
  18. ^ Ex 12:14-20; Le 23:6-8; Nu 28:16-25
  19. ^ Ex 12:2; 13:4
  20. ^ Ex 22:29; 34:20
  21. ^ Ex 34:22; Le 23:10; Nu 28:26
  22. ^ Le 23:39
  23. ^ Ex 23:14; 34:23; De 16:16
  24. ^ Ex 34:25; Le 2:11
  25. ^ Ex 12:10; Le 7:15; De 16:4
  26. ^ Ex 22:29; 34:26; De 26:2, 10; Ne 10:35; Pr 3:9
  27. ^ De 14:21
  28. ^ Ex 3:2; 14:19; 23:23; 32:34; 33:2
  29. ^ Ex 15:16, 17
  30. ^ De 9:7; Ps 78:40, 56
  31. ^ Ex 3:14; 6:3; 34:5-7
  32. ^ Ge 12:3; Nu 24:9; De 30:7
  33. ^ Ex 23:20; Jos 24:8, 11
  34. ^ Ex 20:5; 23:13, 33; De 12:30f
  35. ^ Nu 33:52; De 7:5; 12:3; 2Ki 18:4
  36. ^ Ex 34:13; Le 26:1; 2Ki 3:2
  37. ^ Le 26:3-13; De 6:13; 10:12; 28:1-14; Jos 22:5; 1Sa 12:20; Mt 4:10
  38. ^ Ex 15:26; De 7:15
  39. ^ De 7:14
  40. ^ De 4:40; Jb 5:26
  41. ^ Ge 35:5; Ex 15:16; De 2:25; Jos 2:9
  42. ^ De 7:23
  43. ^ Ps 18:40; 21:12
  44. ^ De 7:20; Jos 24:12
  45. ^ Ex 33:2; 34:11
  46. ^ De 7:22
  47. ^ De 7:22
  48. ^ Ge 15:18; De 1:7, 8; 11:24
  49. ^ De 2:36; Jos 21:44
  50. ^ Jos 24:12, 18
  51. ^ Ex 34:12; De 7:2
  52. ^ Ex 23:13, 24
  53. ^ De 7:1-5, 16
  54. ^ Ex 34:12; De 12:30; Jos 23:13; Jg 2:3; Ps 106:36

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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