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Exodus 23:22 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" But if you indeed 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. "
Exodus 23:22
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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.
21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
22 But if you indeed 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 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.
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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."
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"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."
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