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Exodus 23

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1 "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

2 "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;

3 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

4 "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

8 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

9 "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

10 "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,

11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

12 "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

13 "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.

14 "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.

15 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.

16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.

17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

18 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.

19 The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

20 "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

22 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

23 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.

24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

25 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.

26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

27 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

28 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.

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

30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.

31 I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9254

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9254. Verses 4-9 When you meet your enemy's ox or his ass going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him. When you see the ass of one who hates you lying under its burden, and you would cease from removing [it] for him, 1 you shall surely remove [it] with him. 2 You shall not turn aside 3 the judgement of your needy one in his dispute. You shall keep yourself well away from the word of a lie; 4 and do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked. And you shall not accept a gift, 5 for a gift 5 blinds those whose eyes are open and perverts the words of the righteous. And a sojourner you shall not oppress; and you know the soul of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

'When you meet your enemy's ox or his ass going astray' means unauthentic good and unauthentic truth with those who are outside the Church. 'You shall surely bring it back to him' means teaching and correcting. 'When you see the ass of one who hates you lying under its burden' means falsity that does not accord with the Church's good, as a result of which they will perish. 'And you would cease from removing [it] for him' means not receiving truth. 'You shall surely remove [it] with him' means nevertheless exhorting and striving hard to correct. 'You shall not turn aside the judgement of your needy one in his dispute' means not destroying the small amount of truth with those lacking in knowledge. 'You shall keep yourself well away from the word of a lie' means detesting falsity arising from evil. 'And do not kill the innocent and the righteous' means detesting the destruction of good, interior and exterior. 'For I will not justify the wicked' means that such malevolence is contrary to Divine righteousness. 'And you shall not accept a gift' means detesting any kind of gain. 'For a gift blinds those whose eyes are open' means that gain prevents truths from being seen. 'And perverts the words of the righteous' means that it causes things which are seen to look like the truths of good. 'And a sojourner you shall not oppress' means that those with a desire to receive instruction in the Church's truths must not be molested with evils of life. 'And you know the soul of a sojourner' means their desire and life. 'For you were sojourners in the land of Egypt' means that they were protected from falsities and evils when they were molested by those from hell.

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1. i.e. hold back from helping him to lift the burden from the animal

2. i.e. help him lift the burden

3. i.e. pervert or overturn

4. i.e. Have nothing to do with a false charge against someone

5. i.e. a bribe

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.