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Exodus 23:18 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning. "
Exodus 23:18
Verse in Context
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16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
18 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.
19 You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
20 “Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
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Exodus 23:1
"“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness."
Exodus 23:2
"“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice."
Exodus 23:3
"You shall not favor a poor man in his cause."
Exodus 23:4
"“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again."
Exodus 23:5
"If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it."
Exodus 23:6
"“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits."
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