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| [[File:moses.jpg|right|thumb|[[Moses]], [[Jesus]], and [[Elijah]] seem to have been in agreement and there seems to be a commonality or harmony in the [[Song of Moses]] and the [[Song of the Lamb]].<Br>[[Ten Commandments]]<Br> ]]
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| 1V No ''false report'' with the  [[wicked]]<Ref name="rasa">{{07563}}</Ref> to be an unrighteous witness.
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| 2V Not "a multitude to do evil"<Ref name="rah">{{07451}}</Ref> is a prohibition against [[democracy]]. Moses was establishing a Pure [[Republic]] served by [[Pure Religion]] in the tradition of [[Libera res publica]] because he was in agreement with [[Jesus]] who was the [[Christ]].
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| To ''wrest''<Ref name="natah">{{05186}}</Ref> ''[[judgement]]'' is the ''stretching'' of justice beyond their scope, intent, or purpose and could means ''perverting justice'' in their courts<Ref>
: Deuteronomy 24:17  Thou shalt not pervert <05186> the judgment of the stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
: Deuteronomy 27:19  Cursed [be] he that perverteth <05186> the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.</Ref> which we see is the topic at least in [[Exodus 23]]:3 through  [[Exodus 23]]:9. 
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| 3V Is a prohibition against the philosophy of the modern social justice warrior. "Thou shall not "countenance(partiality of the) הָדַר‎ hadar<Ref name="hadar">{{01921}}</Ref> a poor<Ref name="dal">{{01800}}</Ref> man in his cause<Ref name="riyb">{{07379}}</Ref>." The Hebrew text in [[Exodus 23]]:3 shows לֹ֥א תֶהְדַּ֖ר "lo ṯehdar" which means "''You shall not show partiality''" which you will also see in [[Leviticus 19]]:15. Also see [[Sodom]] and how it weakened the poor,<Ref>[[Ezekiel 16]]:49  Behold, this was the [[iniquity]] of thy sister [[Sodom]], pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.</Ref> And learn about [[legal charity]] and how it [[degenerate]]s the [[masses]] which a way of [[milk and meat|boiling meat in milk]] which we see in [[Exodus 23]]:19.
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| The modern [[social justice]] warrior wants to privilege the poor where he gets preferential treatment through [[legal charity]] but the Bible, which advocates for the poor and [[fervent charity]], speaks against the preferential treatment of the poor. And it forbids [[legal charity]] as the [[wages of unrighteousness]] warning against any [[appetite]] for the [[dainties]] of rulers. We know that economists like [[Cloward and Piven]] designed such social justice to destroy the economy and families.
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| 4V Be kind to thy enemy<Ref name="oyeb">{{0341}}</Ref>
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| 5V Help those who hate<Ref name="sane">{{08130}}</Ref> you.
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| 6V "not wrest<Ref name="natah">{{05186}}</Ref> the judgment<Ref name="mishpat">{{04941}}</Ref> of thy poor<Ref name="ebyown">{{034}}</Ref> in his cause.
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| 7V "false matter" ''lying word''. Do not slay the innocent and righteous or ''just''.
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| 8V no bribe because to [[Plutarch|take gifts]] or even [[dainties]] that would be [[covetous practices]].<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref>
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| 9V Not [[oppress]] like the [[bondage of Egypt]] would be not oppressing my neighbor or forcing my neighbor to provide me with what I want through men who exercise authority.<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref>.
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| V10-12V While resting the land could be a good practice is there more to these verses?
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| 13V Who are these [[gods]]?
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| 14V [[Feasts and festivals]]. What are they and why have them.
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| 15V Abid and the money changers and none shall be empty handed.
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| 16V The harvest festival. [[Feast of Tabernacles]].
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| 18V What is leaven? And is holding back the fat slighting or delaying the [[charity]] and ''sharing''.
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| 19V Bring the fruit into the ''house of the LORD'' and is the national system of [[welfare]] through [[fervent charity]]. Those [[tables]] are not a [[snare]] and do not [[degenerate]] the [[masses]]. But what do they have to do with "[[Milk and meat]]"?
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| 20V 21V Obey the messenger
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| 21V God will fight the battles like with the Egyptian.
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| 22V-26V Not serve their gods but serve the [[LORD]].
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| V27  While we are told to [[fear not]] we will see the LORD bring a fear to the [[wicked]]. They will be ''troubled'' and ''destroyed'' in [[spirit and truth]]. "Hamam" with a [[double Mem]] (הָמַם‎)<Ref name="Hamam">{{02000}}</Ref> first seen in [[Exodus 14]]:24 as the word ''troubled'' and again in [[Exodus 23]]:27 as ''destroy all the people'' by His ''fear'' and again in [[Deuteronomy 2]]:15 are just a few of the places this word ''hamam'' appears in scripture.
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| 32v Thou shalt make no covenant  with them, nor with their [[gods]] that would cause you to return to the [[bondage of Egypt]].
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| See the [[Peaceful invasion of Canaan]].
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| [[Deuteronomy 17]]:16  "... nor cause the people to return to Egypt" See  [[Deuteronomy 17]]: 14 through 20 are clear instructions for what must be in a constitution for it to be biblical and that is covered in '''[[Not my constitution]]'''.
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| To find out about these warnings:
* not set a stranger over thee
* he shall not multiply horses to himself
* cause the people to return to [[Egypt]],
* to the end that he should multiply horses,
* Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, 
* neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
* [[priest]] read therein all the days of his life 
: If you do not know what that means go read [http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/covenants/ccc4.php The Constitutions Part IV] with Covenants  Series Audio Part IV  
[http://www.hisholychurch.org/kkvv/6thbatch/04CovenantsContractsConstitutions.mp3 download or play]
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| See also '''[[The Governments of God and other gods]]''' and [[Romans 13]].| 
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== Honest witness ==


1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the [[wicked]]<Ref name="rasa">{{07563}}</Ref>  to be an unrighteous witness.


=== Democracy of the wicked ===

2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude<Ref name="rab">{{07227}}</Ref> to do evil<Ref name="rah">{{07451}}</Ref> ; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline<Ref name="natah">{{05186}}</Ref> after many<Ref name="rab">{{07227}}</Ref> to wrest<Ref name="natah">{{05186}}</Ref> ''judgment'':

3 Neither shalt thou countenance<Ref name="hadar">{{01921}}</Ref> a poor man in his cause.

=== No neglect of your enemy ===

4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

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 with him.

=== No perversion of judgement ===

6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment<Ref name="mishpat">{{04941}}</Ref> of thy poor in his cause.

7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.


=== No gifts and bribes ===

8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

=== No oppression of strangers ===

9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

==== No labor for those who earned a rest ===

10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

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.

=== No other gods ===

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.

=== Not empty hands at feasts ===

14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

15 Thou shalt keep the feast of un[[leaven]]ed 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:)

16 And the feast of harvest, the [[firstfruit]]s 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.

17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

=== No leaven with the blood of the sacrifice  ===

18 Thou shalt not offer the [[blood]] of my [[sacrifice]] with [[leaven]]ed bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

19 The first of the [[firstfruit]]s of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. [[milk and meat|Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.]]

== Or no Messenger before you ==

20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

=== [[Peaceful invasion of Canaan]] ===

22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.

=== No bowing and serving their gods ===

24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

== But serve the LORD ==

25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

=== The LORD will send fear ===

27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy(הָמַם‎)<Ref name="Hamam">{{02000}}</Ref> all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

=== Hornets ===

28 And I will send hornets<Ref name="tsirah">{{06880}}</Ref> before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

=== deliver the inhabitants ===

31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

===  no covenant with those gods ===

32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their [[gods]].<Ref name="consentnot">{{consentnot}}</Ref><Ref name="makeno">{{makeno}}</Ref>

33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their [[gods]], it will surely be a snare unto thee.
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