Exodus 第23章
123:1 [Lev. 19:11; Ps. 15:3; 101:5] “You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a 23:1 Deut. 19:16-18; Ps. 35:11; [1 Kgs. 21:10, 13; Matt. 26:59-61; Acts 6:11, 13]malicious witness.
2You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,
323:3 Lev. 19:15; [Deut. 1:17]nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.
423:4 [Deut. 22:1, 4; Prov. 25:21; Matt. 5:44; Rom. 12:20; 1 Thess. 5:15]“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him.
5If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.
623:6 Deut. 27:19; Eccles. 5:8; Isa. 10:1, 2; Jer. 5:28, 29; Mal. 3:5“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.
723:7 [See ver. 1above] Keep far from a false charge, and 23:7 Deut. 27:25; [Prov. 17:26] do not kill the innocent and righteous, for 23:7 ch. 34:7I will not acquit the wicked.
823:8 Deut. 16:19; [1 Sam. 8:3; 2 Chr. 19:7; Ps. 26:10; Prov. 17:23; Isa. 1:23; 5:23; 33:15]And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals
11but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.
1323:13 Deut. 4:9; Josh. 22:5; 23:7; Hos. 2:17; Zech. 13:2“Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.
1423:14 ver. 17; ch. 34:23; Deut. 16:16“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.
1523:15 See ch. 12:15You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of 23:15 ch. 13:4Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. 23:15 ch. 34:20; Deut. 16:16None shall appear before me empty-handed.
16You shall keep 23:16 ch. 34:22; See Lev. 23:9-21the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the 23:16 Deut. 16:13; See Lev. 23:34-44Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.
19“The best of the 23:19 ch. 34:26; Lev. 2:12; 23:10, 17; Num. 18:12, 13; Deut. 26:2, 10; Neh. 10:35; Ezek. 44:30firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.
23:19 ch. 34:26; Deut. 14:21“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Conquest of Canaan Promised
2023:20 ch. 14:19; 33:2, 14; Josh. 5:13, 14; 6:2; Isa. 63:9“Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.
21Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; 23:21 Ps. 78:40, 56do not rebel against him, 23:21 [ch. 32:34; 34:7; Num. 14:35; Josh. 24:19]for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.
22“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then 23:22 Gen. 12:3; Deut. 30:7; Jer. 30:20I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
2323:23 [See ver. 20above] “When my angel goes before you and brings you 23:23 See ch. 13:5to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out,
24you shall 23:24 ch. 20:5not bow down to their gods nor serve them, 23:24 Lev. 18:3; Deut. 12:30, 31nor do as they do, but 23:24 ch. 34:13; Num. 33:52; Deut. 7:5, 25; 12:3you shall utterly overthrow them and break their 23:24 See Deut. 16:22pillars in pieces.
25You 23:25 Deut. 6:13; 10:12, 20; 11:13; 13:4; Josh. 22:5; Matt. 4:10shall serve the Lord your God, and 23:25 Deut. 7:13; 28:5, 8he23:25 Septuagint, Vulgate I will bless your bread and your water, and 23:25 ch. 15:26; Deut. 7:15I will take sickness away from among you.
2623:26 Deut. 7:14None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the 23:26 [Job 5:26; Ps. 55:23]number of your days.
27I will send 23:27 Deut. 2:25; Josh. 2:9my terror before you and will throw into 23:27 Deut. 7:23confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
28And 23:28 Deut. 7:20; Josh. 24:12I will send hornets23:28 Or the hornet before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
2923:29 Deut. 7:22I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you.
30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land.
3123:31 Gen. 15:18; Num. 34:3; Deut. 11:24; Josh. 1:4; [1 Kgs. 4:21, 24; Ps. 72:8] And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates,23:31 Hebrew the River for 23:31 Josh. 21:44; Judg. 1:4; 11:21I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, 23:33 ch. 34:12; Deut. 7:16; Josh. 23:13; Judg. 2:3; Ps. 106:36it will surely be a snare to you.”
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