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Exodus 23:14 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. "
Exodus 23:14
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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.
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.
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
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:)
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
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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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