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Exodus 23:28 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. "
Exodus 23:28
Verse in Context
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26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
27 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
28 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.
30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.
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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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