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Exodus 23 ERV · ERV Bible Reading

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SPEAKER_00: Exodus 23.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't tell lies against other people.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're a witness in court, don't agree to help a bad person tell lies.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't do something because everyone else is doing it.
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SPEAKER_00: If you see a group of people doing wrong, don't join them.
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SPEAKER_00: You must not let them persuade you to do wrong things.
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SPEAKER_00: You must do what is right and fair.
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SPEAKER_00: In court, don't treat a person in a special way simply because that person is poor.
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SPEAKER_00: If you see a lost bull or donkey, then you must return it to its owner, even if the owner is your enemy.
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SPEAKER_00: If you see an animal that cannot walk because it has too much to carry, you must stop and help that animal.
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SPEAKER_00: You must help that animal even if it belongs to one of your enemies.
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SPEAKER_00: In court, don't let anyone take advantage of a person simply because that person is poor.
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SPEAKER_00: Be very careful if you say someone is guilty of something.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't make false charges against a person.
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SPEAKER_00: Never allow innocent people to be killed as punishment for something they did not do.
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SPEAKER_00: Whoever kills an innocent person is evil.
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SPEAKER_00: And I will not treat a guilty person as innocent.
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SPEAKER_00: If someone tries to pay you to agree with you when they are wrong, don't accept that payment.
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SPEAKER_00: A payment can beat lying judges so that they cannot see the truth.
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SPEAKER_00: It can make good people tell lies.
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SPEAKER_00: You must never do wrong things to a foreigner.
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SPEAKER_00: Remember, you know what it is like to be a foreigner because at one time you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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SPEAKER_00: The Special Festivals Plant seeds, harvest your crops, and work the ground for six years, but the seventh year must be a special time of rest for the land.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't plant anything in your fields.
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SPEAKER_00: If any crops grow there, allow the poor to have it, and allow the wild animals to eat the food that is left.
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SPEAKER_00: You should do the same with your vineyards and with your fields of olive trees.
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SPEAKER_00: Work for six days, but on the seventh day rest.
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SPEAKER_00: This will allow your slaves and other workers a time to rest and relax, and your bulls and donkeys will also have a time of rest.
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SPEAKER_00: Be sure that you obey all these laws.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't worship false gods.
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SPEAKER_00: You should not even speak their names.
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SPEAKER_00: You will have three special festivals each year.
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SPEAKER_00: You must come to my special place to worship me during these festivals.
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SPEAKER_00: The first festival is the festival of unleavened bread.
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SPEAKER_00: This is as I commanded you.
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SPEAKER_00: During this time you will eat bread that is made without yeast.
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SPEAKER_00: This will continue for seven days.
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SPEAKER_00: You will do this during the month of Abib, because this is the time when you came out of Egypt.
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SPEAKER_00: Everyone must bring a sacrifice to me at that time.
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SPEAKER_00: The second festival will be the festival of harvest.
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SPEAKER_00: This festival will come during early summer when you begin harvesting the first crops that you planted in your field.
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SPEAKER_00: The third festival will be the festival of shelters.
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SPEAKER_00: This will be in the fall when you finish gathering the rest of your crops from your fields.
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SPEAKER_00: So three times each year, all the men will come to the special place to be with the Lord God.
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SPEAKER_00: When you kill an animal and offer its blood as a sacrifice, you must not include anything that has yeast in it.
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SPEAKER_00: And when you burn the fat from my sacrifice, don't let any of it remain until morning.
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SPEAKER_00: When you gather your crops at harvest time, you should bring the burst of everything you harvest to the house of the Lord your God.
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SPEAKER_00: You must not eat the meat from a young goat that is boiled in its mother's milk.
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SPEAKER_00: God will help Israel take their land.
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SPEAKER_00: I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and lead you to the place that I have prepared for you.
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SPEAKER_00: Obey the angel and follow him.
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SPEAKER_00: Be careful in his presence and don't rebel against him.
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SPEAKER_00: The angel will not forgive the wrong things you do to him.
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SPEAKER_00: He is my power in him.
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SPEAKER_00: If you listen to what he says and do everything I tell you, then I will be an enemy to all of your enemies.
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SPEAKER_00: I will be against everyone who is against you.
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SPEAKER_00: My angel will lead you through the land.
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SPEAKER_00: He will lead you against the many different people, the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, but I will defeat all of them.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't worship their gods, don't ever bow down to those gods.
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SPEAKER_00: You must never live the way those people live.
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SPEAKER_00: You must destroy their idols, and you must break the stones that help them remember their gods.
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SPEAKER_00: You must serve the Lord your God.
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SPEAKER_00: If you do this, I will bless you with plenty of bread and water.
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SPEAKER_00: I will take away all sickness from you.
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SPEAKER_00: Your women will all be able to have babies.
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SPEAKER_00: None of the babies will die at birth, and I will allow you to live long lives.
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SPEAKER_00: When you fight against your enemies, I will send my great power before you.
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SPEAKER_00: I will help you defeat your enemies.
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SPEAKER_00: The people who are against you will become confused in battle and run away.
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SPEAKER_00: I will send the hornet in front of you.
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SPEAKER_00: He will force your enemies to leave.
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SPEAKER_00: The Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites will leave your country, but I will not force all of them out of your land quickly.
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SPEAKER_00: I will not do this in only one year.
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SPEAKER_00: The land would be empty if I forced the people out too fast, then the wild animals would increase and control the land, and they would be much trouble for you.
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SPEAKER_00: So I will force them out of your land very slowly.
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SPEAKER_00: I will do this as you grow and eventually take the land to be your own.
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SPEAKER_00: I will give you all the land from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, from the desert of Sinai to the Euphrates River.
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SPEAKER_00: I will let you defeat the people living there and force them all to leave.
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SPEAKER_00: You must not make any agreements with any of those people or their gods.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't let them stay in your country.
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SPEAKER_00: If you let them stay, they will be like a trap for you and they will cause you to sin against me, and you will begin worshiping their gods.