Exodus Chapter 23

Teachings on false reports

23:1 YOU shall not give a false report don’t put your hand with the wicked to become an unrighteous witness.
23:2 You shall not follow after many to gain evil things. And shall you not testify in a lawsuit to turn aside after many in order to pervert [justice]
23:3 And you shall not favor a poor man in his lawsuit.
23:4 If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
23:5 If you see the donkey of him that hated you crouching under his burden, and would refrain from leaving [it] to him, you shall surely loose [it] from him.
23:6 You shall not pervert the judgment of your needy one in his lawsuit.

23:7 You keep far away from a false matter ; and don’t kill the innocent and righteous צַדִּיק‎
Transliteration ṣadîq Pronunciation tsad-deek’ To do what is right Tzadik is also the root of the word tzedakah (‘charity’, literally ‘righteousness’). For more info click here for I will not justify the wicked.
23:8 And you shall take a bribe because the bribe blinds the wise (seeing) one, and [it] perverts the words of the righteousצַדִּיק‎
Transliteration ṣadîq Pronunciation tsad-deek’ To do what is right Tzadik is also the root of the word tzedakah (‘charity’, literally ‘righteousness’). For more info click here.
23:9 Also you shall not oppress a stranger for you know the heart (soul) of a stranger, seeing you were strangers in the land of Egyptמִצְרַיִם‎
Transliteration:miṣrayim – Pronunciation: mits-rah’-yim adjective, proper locative noun – Egypt = “land of the Copts (a member of a people descended from the ancient Egyptians)” . For more info click here.
23:10 And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather its produce.
23:11 And the seventh [year] you shall let it rest and lie dormant; so that the poor of your people may eat and what they leave the animals of the field shall eat. You shall do to your vineyard, [and] with your olive yard (or olive trees).

Teachings on the Sabbath

23:12 Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your slave girl, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
23:13 And you be careful in all [things] that I have said to you and make no mention of the name of other gods, or let it be heard out of your mouth.

Three feasts

23:14 Three times in the year you shall make a feast to Me.
23:15 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, like I commanded you, in the time appointed of the month of Avivאביב
means “barley ripening”, and by extension “spring season” in Hebrew. It is also used as a given name, surname, and place name, as in Tel Aviv. The first month of the year is called the month of Aviv in the Pentateuch. The month is called Nisan in the book of Esther, and in subsequent post-exilic history up to the present day. These names are sometimes used interchangeably, although Aviv refers to the three month season, and Nisan is called the “first month of Aviv.” In bible spelled Abib For more info click here ; because in it you came out from Egyptמִצְרַיִם‎
Transliteration:miṣrayim – Pronunciation: mits-rah’-yim adjective, proper locative noun – Egypt = “land of the Copts (a member of a people descended from the ancient Egyptians)” . For more info click here and they shall not appear before Me empty)
23:16 And the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field and the Feast of Ingathering, at the end of the year, when you have gathered in your work from of the field.
23:17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before Adonaiאֲדֹנָי
Hebrew pronunciation: [ʾăḏōnāy], lit. transl. My Lords, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here .
23:18 You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; or shall the fat of My feast remain until morning.
23:19 The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

Promise of an Angel

23:20 See, I am about to send an Angelמַלְאָךְ‎
Transliteration: mal’āḵ Pronunciation: mal-awk’ angel, agent, messenger or representative. For more info click here  ahead of you, to guard you on the road, and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.
23:21 Pay attention to Him, and listen His voice, don’t provoke Him; because He will not forgive your transgressions because my Name [is] in Him.
23:22 But if you shall fully listen to his voice, and do all that I speak ; then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
23:23 Because my Angelמַלְאָךְ‎
Transliteration: mal’āḵ Pronunciation: mal-awk’ angel, agent messenger or representative. For more info click here  goes in front of you, and bring you in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites and I will destroy them.
23:24 You shall not bow down to their gods, or serve them, and you shall not do after their works but you shall completely overthrow them, and smash their images.
23:25 And you shall serve YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here, and He shall bless your bread, and your water ; and I will take sickness away from among you.
23:26 There shall not be one miscarrying, or one barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
23:27 I will send my terror before you, and will destroy all the people among whom you shall come. And I will make all your enemies turn their backs (necks) to you.
23:28 And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
23:29 I will not drive them out from in front of you in one year ; otherwise the land [will] become desolate, and the animal of the field multiply on you.
23:30 Little by little I will drive them out from in front of you, until you are fruitful, and inherit the land.
23:31 And I will set your border from the Sea of Reeds even to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wildernessמִדְבָּר
Transliteration: miḏbār Pronunciation; mid-bawr’ desert, south, speech, wilderness For more info click here as far as the River. Because I will deliver the people of the land into your hand ; and you shall drive them out before you.
23:32 You shall not cut a covenant with them, or their gods.
23:33 They shall not stay in your land, unless they make you sin against me for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a trap to you.