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KING JAMES VERSION

Exodus 23	Exodus 23
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1 "You must not take up a false report, nor give force to the wicked by being a false witness.	This part of KING JAMES VERSION will be added later on.
2 "Do not act under peer pressure to do evil; when you testify in a lawsuit, do not care to please the preponderant belief,	.....
3 "Neither favor the weaker one.	.....
4 "If you meet your enemy's ox or donkey going astray, you must certainly return it.	.....
5 "If you meet someone who hates you whose donkey has fallen under its burden, and would refrain from acting, nevertheless, you must certainly offer your help.	.....
6 "You must not deny the poor in their quest for justice.	.....
7 "Keep far away from a false matter, and do not slay the innocent and righteous; for the almighty I-am will not justify a wicked act.	.....
8 "Now you must not give a bribe, for a bribe blinds the wise and twists the words of the righteous.	.....
9 "Also you must not oppress any stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, seeing that you were strangers in the land of Egyptian bondage.	.....
10 "Six years you can sow your land and gather in the harvest thereof,	.....
11 "But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the wild animals of the field will eat. Also this is how you will handle your vineyard and your oliveyard.	.....
12 "Six days you must do your work, and on the sabbath you must rest, so your ox and your donkey may rest, and the servants born in your house, and the stranger that is within may find rest.	.....
13 "Now in all that I have taught you, be circumspect and do not look to any other gods, neither let their names be heard from your mouth.	.....
14 "Three times a year you must dedicate a feast to me.	.....
15 "You will keep the feast of unleavened bread, for you must eat unleavened bread seven days, as I have commanded you to do in the appointed month of Abib, for that is when you came out of Egyptian bondage; none can appear before me impoverished.	.....
16 "Celebrate the feast of the harvest with the firstfruits of your labor from sowing in the field, and the feast of ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in your crops from the field.	.....
17 "Three times in the year all your men are to appear before the Lord God.	.....
18 "You must not include leavened bread with the blood of my sacrifice; neither can the fat of my sacrifice remain until morning.	.....
19 "The best of the firstfruits of your land you must bring into the house of the Lord your God. You will not cook a kid in its mother's milk.	.....
20 "Behold, when the almighty I-am passes a divine thought^ to you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you to the presence which is prepared,	.....
21 "Take care to follow it, do not corrupt it, as the corruption of it will not be forgiven for I have designated it.	.....
22 "But if you will indeed obey divine direction, and do all that the infinite I-am commands, then the One-ego will be a protection against your adversaries and will reverse their malice.	.....
23 "For the thoughts of God will lead you and bring you to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and the one almighty Ego will cut them off.	.....
24 "You must not worship their gods nor serve them nor follow their adherents' practices, but you must utterly overthrow them, bringing down their images.	.....
25 "You will honor the Lord your God, and your physical and mental activity will be blessed, and the omnipresent I-am will remove any belief in sickness from the midst of you.	.....
26 "None among you will miscarry, nor be sterile in your state of thought, for I will fulfill the numerals of enlightenment.	.....
27 "Attempting to negate the infinite I-am will bring dread to any opponents and eliminate all opposition which you meet, and the almighty I-am will reverse the activity of your opponents.	.....
28 "Now I will be a pestilence to your opponents, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.	.....
29 "They will be driven out gradually, lest your thinking become inactive and the beastly field of strife multiply against you.	.....
30 "Little by little, the all-inclusive I-am will drive them out from before you, until you grow in Spirit and inherit the divine state of consciousness.	.....
31 "And I, even your God, will set you outside the focal distance of the advancing and receding sea of error^, removing it from human hopes and their tendency, for under your reflected power will I deliver those who dwell in false belief, and you will drive their beliefs out from before you.	.....
32 "You must not be in accord with them nor with their gods.	.....
33 "Their ideals must not dwell in your state of resolve, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely ensnare you."	.....