Exodus 23
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1V No false report with the wicked[1] to be an unrighteous witness. |
2V Not "a multitude to do evil"[2] is a prohibition against democracy. |
3V countenance[3] a poor[4] man ... see Sodom[5] |
4V Be kind to thy enemy[6] |
5V Help those who hate[7] you. |
6V "not wrest[8] the judgment[9] of thy poor[10] in his cause. |
7V "false matter" lying word. Do not slay the innocent and righteous or just. |
8V no bribe because to take gifts or even dainties that would be covetous practices. |
9V Not oppress like the bondage of Egypt. |
V10-12V While resting the land could be a good practice is there more to these verses? |
13V Who are these gods? |
14V Feasts and festivals. What are they and why have them. |
15V Abid and the money changers and none shall be empty handed. |
16V The harvest festival. Feast of Tabernacles. |
18V What is leaven? And is holding back the fat slighting or delaying the charity and sharing. |
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"? |
20V 21V Obey the messenger |
21V God will fight the battles like with the Egyptian. |
22V-26V Not serve their gods but serve the LORD. |
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)[11] 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. |
32v Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods that would cause you to return to the bondage of Egypt. |
See the Peaceful invasion of Canaan. |
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. |
To find out about these warnings:
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See also The Governments of God and other gods and Romans 13.| |
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Honest love of all
1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked[1] to be an unrighteous witness.
Democracy of the wicked
2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude[12] to do evil[2] ; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline[8] after many[12] to wrest[8] judgment:
3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
Kind to thy 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.
6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment 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
8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
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.
Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals
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.
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.
Feasts
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:)
16 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.
17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
No leaven
18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
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.
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.
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.
27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy(הָמַם)[11] 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[13] 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.
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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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 07563 עשׁר AyinShinReish rasha‘ raw-shaw’ from the verb 07561 AyinShinReish condemn; adj; {See TWOT on 2222 @@ "2222b"} AV-wicked 249, ungodly 8, wicked man 3, misc 3; 263
- 1) wicked, criminal
- 1a) guilty one, one guilty of crime (subst)
- 1b) wicked (hostile to God)
- 1c) wicked, guilty of sin (against God or man)
- ע Ayin also U. Divine Providence "eye" or "fountain" of five states of kindness or severity. AlefYodNun or nothingness as opposed to AlefShin something [eye, watch] (Numeric value: 70)
- ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
- ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
- 1) wicked, criminal
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 07451 ^ער^ ra‘ ReishAyin \@rah\@ or fem. ^הער^ ra‘ah from 07489 the verb 07490 (Aramic)ReishAyinAyin evil (to crush); AV-evil 442, wickedness 59, wicked 25, mischief 21, hurt 20, bad 13, trouble 10, sore 9, affliction 6, ill 5, adversity 4, favoured 3, harm 3, naught 3, noisome 2, grievous 2, sad 2, misc 34; 663
- adj
- 1) bad, evil
- 1a) bad, disagreeable, malignant
- 1b) bad, unpleasant, evil (giving pain, unhappiness, misery)
- 1c) evil, displeasing
- 1d) bad (of its kind-land, water, etc)
- 1e) bad (of value)
- 1f) worse than, worst (comparison)
- 1g) sad, unhappy
- 1h) evil (hurtful)
- 1i) bad, unkind (vicious in disposition)
- 1j) bad, evil, wicked (ethically)
- 1j1) in general, of persons, of thoughts
- 1j2) deeds, actions
- n m
- 2) evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity
- 2a) evil, distress, adversity
- 2b) evil, injury, wrong
- 2c) evil (ethical)
- n f
- 3) evil, misery, distress, injury
- 3a) evil, misery, distress
- 3b) evil, injury, wrong
- 3c) evil (ethical)
- ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
- ע Ayin also U. Divine Providence "eye" or "fountain" of five states of kindness or severity. AlefYodNun or nothingness as opposed to AlefShin something [eye, watch] (Numeric value: 70)
- ↑ 01921 הָדַר hadar [haw-dar’] a primitive root HeyDaletReish; v; [BDB-213b] [{See TWOT on 477 }] AV-honour 3, countenance 1, crooked places 1, glorious 1, put forth 1; 7
- 1) to honour, adorn, glorify, be high
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to swell
- 1a1a) swelling (pass participle)
- 1a2) to honour, pay honour to, show partiality
- 1a3) to adorn
- 1a3a) adorned (pass participle)
- 1a1) to swell
- 1b) (Niphal) to be honoured
- 1c) (Hithpael) to honour oneself, claim honour
- 1a) (Qal)
- TavHeyDaletReish ṯehdar "You shall show partiality"
- 1) to honour, adorn, glorify, be high
- ↑ 01800 דַּל dal [dal] from 01809; adj; [BDB-195b] [{See TWOT on 433 @@ "433a" }] AV-poor 43, needy 2, weaker 2, lean 1; 48
- 1) low, poor, weak, thin, one who is low
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 0341 ^ביא^ ‘oyeb \@o-yabe’\@ or (fully) ^ביוא^ ‘owyeb \@o-yabe’\@ active participle of 0340; subst; {See TWOT on 78} AV-enemy(s) 280, foes 2; 282
- 1) (Qal) enemy
- 1a) personal
- 1b) national
- 1) (Qal) enemy
- ↑ 08130 ^אנשׂ^ sane’ \@saw-nay’\@ a primitive root; v; {See TWOT on 2272} AV-hate 136, enemies 3, enemy 2, foes 1, hateful 1, misc 3; 146
- 1) to hate, be hateful
- 1a) (Qal) to hate
- 1a1) of man
- 1a2) of God
- 1a3) hater, one hating, enemy (participle) (subst)
- 1b) (Niphal) to be hated
- 1c) (Piel) hater (participle)
- 1c1) of persons, nations, God, wisdom
- 1a) (Qal) to hate
- 1) to hate, be hateful
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 05186 נָטָה natah [naw-taw’] NunTetHey a primitive root; v; [BDB-639b] [{See TWOT on 1352 }] AV-stretch out 60, incline 28, turn 16, stretch forth 15, turn aside 13, bow 8, decline 8, pitched 8, bow down 5, turn away 5, spread 5, stretched out still 4, pervert 4, stretch 4, extend 3, wrest 3, outstretched 3, carried aside 2, misc 20; 215
- 1) to stretch out, extend, spread out, pitch, turn, pervert, incline, bend, bow
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to stretch out, extend, stretch, offer
- 1a3) to bend, turn, incline
- 1a3a) to turn aside, incline, decline, bend down
- 1a3b) to bend, bow
- 1a3c) to hold out, extend (fig.)
- 1b) (Niphal) to be stretched out
- 1c) (Hiphil)
- 1c1) to stretch out
- 1c2) to spread out
- 1c3) to turn, incline, influence, bend down, hold out, extend, thrust aside, thrust away
- 1a) (Qal)
- נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- ט Tet Introversion - The Concealed power of good or paradoxically evil [to twist a snake... wheel To surround (gestation)] (Numeric value: 9)
- ה Hey Expression--Thought, Speech, Action. Manifest seeds of thought and life. [Emphasize, jubilation, window, fence] (Numeric value: 5)
- 1) to stretch out, extend, spread out, pitch, turn, pervert, incline, bend, bow
- ↑ 04941 ^טפשׁמ^ MemShinPeiTet mishpat \@mish-pawt’\@ מִשְׁפָּט has 50 different variations and appears some 420 times and is from the three letter Hebrew word 08199 טפשׁ; n m; {See TWOT on 2443 @@ "2443c"} AV-judgment 296, manner 38, right 18, cause 12, ordinance 11, lawful 7, order 5, worthy 3, fashion 3, custom 2, discretion 2, law 2, measure 2, sentence 2, misc 18; 421
- 1) judgment, justice, ordinance
- 1a) judgment
- 1a1) act of deciding a case
- 1a2) place, court, seat of judgment
- 1a3) process, procedure, litigation (before judges)
- 1a4) case, cause (presented for judgment)
- 1a5) sentence, decision (of judgment)
- 1a6) execution (of judgment)
- 1a7) time (of judgment)
- 1b) justice, right, rectitude (attributes of God or man)
- 1c) ordinance
- 1d) decision (in law)
- 1e) right, privilege, due (legal)
- 1f) proper, fitting, measure, fitness, custom, manner, plan
- 1a) judgment
- מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
- ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
- פ ף Pei Communication: The Oral Torah The mouth, blow, edge. [Mouth speak open word] (Numeric value: 80)
- ט Tet Introversion - The Concealed power of good or paradoxically evil [to twist a snake... wheel To surround (gestation)] (Numeric value: 9)
- 1) judgment, justice, ordinance
- ↑ 034 אֶבְיוֹן ‘ebyown [eb-yone’] from 014, in the sense of want (especially in feeling); adj m; [BDB-2b] [{See TWOT on 3 @@ "3a" }] AV-needy 35, poor 24, beggar 1, poor man 1; 61
- 1) in want, needy, chiefly poor, needy person
- 2) subject to oppression and abuse
- 3) needing help, deliverance from trouble, especially as delivered by God
- 4) general reference to lowest class
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 02000 הָמַם hamam [haw-mam’] a primitive root HeyMemMem [compare 01949 HeyVavMem to distract, ring again, 01993 HeyMemHey roar, cry aloud,]; v; [BDB-243a] [{See TWOT on 507 }] AV-discomfit 5, destroy 3, vex 1, crush 1, break 1, consume 1 trouble 1; 13
- 1) to move noisily, confuse, make a noise, discomfit, break, consume, crush, destroy, trouble, vex
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to move noisily
- 1a2) to confuse, discomfit, vex
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1) to move noisily, confuse, make a noise, discomfit, break, consume, crush, destroy, trouble, vex
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 07227 רַב rab [rab] ReishBeit contracted from 07231 rabab to become many, Greek 4461 ραββι; adj/adv/n m; [BDB-912b, BDB-913b] [{See TWOT on 2099 @@ "2099a" }] [{See TWOT on 2099 @@ "2099b" }] AV-many 190, great 118, much 36, captain 24, more 12, long 10, enough 9, multitude 7, mighty 5, greater 4, greatly 3, misc 40; 458
adj
- 1) much, many, great
- 1a) much
- 1b) many
- 1c) abounding in
- 1d) more numerous than
- 1e) abundant, enough
- 1f) great
- 1g) strong
- 1h) greater than
- adv
- 1i) much, exceedingly
- n m
- 2) captain, chief
- 1) much, many, great
- ↑ 06880 צִרְעָה tsir‘ah [tsir-aw’] TzadikReishAyinHey from TzadikReishAyin 06879 Leprous ; n f coll; [BDB-864a] [{See TWOT on 1971 @@ "1971b" }] AV-hornet 3; 3
- 1) hornets