Exodus 23:1-19 Comments by Stephen Ricker
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Even More Laws
Comments for Study 16

Exodus 23:1-19
Memory Verse: 20:2

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I. Laws of Justice and Mercy (23:1-9)

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* Exodus 23:1 "Do not spread false reports. Do not help a wicked man by being a malicious witness."

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* Exodus 23:2-3 "Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd, and do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit."

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* Exodus 23:4 "If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to take it back to him."

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* Exodus 23:5 "If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help him with it."

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* Exodus 23:6-7 "Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty."

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* Exodus 23:8 "Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous."

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* Exodus 23:9 "Do not oppress an alien; you yourselves know how it feels to be aliens, because you were aliens in Egypt."

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II. Sabbath Laws (23:10-13)

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* Exodus 23:10-11 "For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove."

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* Exodus 23:12 "Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the slave born in your household, and the alien as well, may be refreshed."

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* Exodus 23:13 "Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips."

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III. Three Annual Feasts (23:14-19)

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* Exodus 23:14 "Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me."

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* Exodus 23:17 "Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD."

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* Exodus 23:15 "Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt. "No one is to appear before me empty-handed."

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* Exodus 23:16a "Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field."

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* Exodus 23:16b "Celebrate the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field."

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* Exodus 23:18 "Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast. "The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning."

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* Exodus 23:19 "Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."

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