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Exodus 23:13 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. "
Exodus 23:13
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11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
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Exodus 23:1
"Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness."
Exodus 23:2
"Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest"
Exodus 23:3
"Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause."
Exodus 23:4
"If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again."
Exodus 23:5
"If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help"
Exodus 23:6
"Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause."
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