Exodus · Brenton's English Septuagint
Exodus 23 Brenton's English Septuagint
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- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
1 Thou shalt not receive a vain report: thou shalt not agree with the unjust [man] to become an unjust witness.
1 “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
2 Thou shalt not associate with the multitude for evil; thou shalt not join thyself with a multitude to turn aside with the majority so as to shut out judgment.
2 “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
3 And thou shalt not spare a poor man in judgment.
3 You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.
4 And if thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt turn them back and restore them to him.
4 “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
5 And if thou see thine enemy's ass fallen under its burden, thou shalt not pass by it, but shalt help to raise it with him.
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 Thou shalt not wrest the sentence of the poor in his judgment.
6 “You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
7 Thou shalt abstain from every unjust thing: thou shalt not slay the innocent and just, and thou shalt not justify the wicked for gifts.
7 “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
8 And thou shalt not receive gifts; for gifts blind the eyes of the seeing, and corrupt just words.
8 “You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
9 And ye shall not afflict a stranger, for ye know the heart of a stranger; for ye were yourselves strangers in the land of Egypt.
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 Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the fruits of it.
10 “For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,
11 But in the seventh year thou shalt let it rest, and leave it, and the poor of thy nation shall feed; and the wild beasts of the field shall eat that which remains: thus shalt thou do to thy vineyard and to thine oliveyard.
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 shalt thou do thy works, and on the seventh day there shall be rest, that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and that the son of thy maid-servant and the stranger may be refreshed.
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 servant, and the alien may be refreshed.
13 Observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and ye shall make no mention of the name of other gods, neither shall they be heard out of your mouth.
13 “Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.
14 Keep ye a feast to me three times in the year.
14 “You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
15 Take heed to keep the feast of unleavened bread: seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread, as I charged thee at the season of the month of new [corn], for in it thou camest out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear before me empty.
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 of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.
16 And thou shalt keep the feast of the harvest of first-fruits of thy labours, whatsoever thou shalt have sown in thy field, and the feast of completion at the end of the year in the gathering in of thy fruits out of thy field.
16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
17 Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God.
17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
18 For when I shall have cast out the nations from before thee, and shall have widened thy borders, thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, neither must the fat of my feast abide till the morning.
18 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.
19 Thou shalt bring the first-offerings of the first-fruits of thy land into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a lamb in its mother's milk.
19 You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
20 And, behold, I send my angel before thy face, that he may keep thee in the way, that he may bring thee into the land which I have prepared for thee.
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 Take heed to thyself and hearken to him, and disobey him not; for he will not give way to thee, for my name is on him.
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 If ye will indeed hear my voice, and if thou wilt do all the things I shall charge thee with, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations, for the whole earth is mine; and ye shall be to me a royal priesthood, and a holy nation: these words shall ye speak to the children of Israel, If ye shall indeed hear my voice, and do all the things I shall tell thee, I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries.
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 as thy leader, and shall bring thee to the Amorite, and Chettite, and Pherezite, and Chananite, and Gergesite, and Evite, and Jebusite, and I will destroy them.
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 Thou shalt not worship their gods, nor serve them: thou shalt not do according to their works, but shalt utterly destroy them, and break to pieces their pillars.
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 And thou shalt serve the Lord thy God, and I will bless thy bread and thy wine and thy water, and I will turn away sickness from you.
25 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.
26 There shall not be on thy land one that is impotent or barren. I will surely fulfil the number of thy days.
26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
27 And I will send terror before thee, and I will strike with amazement all the nations to which thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies to flee.
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 And I will send hornets before thee, and thou shalt cast out the Amorites and the Evites, and the Chananites and the Chettites from thee.
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 cast them out in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.
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 By little [and little] I will cast them out from before thee, until thou shalt be increased and inherit the earth.
30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.
31 And I will set thy borders from the Red Sea, to the sea of the Phylistines, and from the wilderness to the great river Euphrates; and I will give into your hand those that dwell in the land, and will cast them out from thee.
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 Thou shalt make no covenant with them and their gods.
32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33 And they shall not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against me; for if thou shouldest serve their gods, these will be an offence to thee.
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.”
Cross references (32)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 101:5; Proverbs 19:5; Deuteronomy 19:16–21; Matthew 26:59–61; Exodus 20:16
- 2 Proverbs 1:10–11; Proverbs 1:15; Luke 23:23–24; Job 31:34; Matthew 27:24–26
- 3 Leviticus 19:15; James 3:17; Psalm 82:2–3; Deuteronomy 1:17
- 4 Deuteronomy 22:1–4; 1 Thessalonians 5:15; Romans 12:17–21; Matthew 5:44; Luke 6:27–28
- 5 Deuteronomy 22:4
- 6 Jeremiah 5:28; Malachi 3:5; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Isaiah 10:1–2; Exodus 23:2–3
- 7 Ephesians 4:25; Exodus 23:1; Deuteronomy 27:25; 1 Thessalonians 5:22; Romans 1:18
- 8 Deuteronomy 16:19; Isaiah 5:23; Proverbs 17:23; Proverbs 15:27; 1 Samuel 8:3
- 9 Deuteronomy 27:19; Exodus 22:21; Deuteronomy 24:14–18; Matthew 18:33; Exodus 21:21
- 10 Leviticus 25:3–4
- 11 Leviticus 25:2–7; Leviticus 26:34–35; Leviticus 25:11–12; Leviticus 25:20; Leviticus 25:22
- 12 Luke 13:14; Exodus 35:3; Exodus 31:15–16; Exodus 20:8–11; Exodus 34:21
- 13 Joshua 23:7; Zechariah 13:2; Deuteronomy 4:9; 1 Timothy 4:16; Hosea 2:17
- 14 Deuteronomy 16:16; Leviticus 23:34; Exodus 23:17; Leviticus 23:16; Exodus 34:22–24
- 15 Luke 22:7; Proverbs 3:9–10; Exodus 34:20; Numbers 28:16–25; Deuteronomy 16:16
- 16 Exodus 34:22; Leviticus 23:9–21; Leviticus 23:34–44; Exodus 22:29; Numbers 29:12–39
- 17 Deuteronomy 16:16; Exodus 34:23; Deuteronomy 31:11; Psalm 84:7; Exodus 23:14
- 18 Exodus 34:25; Deuteronomy 16:4; Exodus 12:10; Leviticus 2:11; Leviticus 7:15
- 19 Exodus 34:26; Deuteronomy 14:21; Nehemiah 10:35; Deuteronomy 26:10; Exodus 22:29
- 20 Exodus 33:14; Psalm 91:11; Exodus 32:34; Exodus 14:19; Exodus 33:2
- 21 Psalm 78:56; Hebrews 12:25; Psalm 78:40; John 10:38; John 10:30
- 22 Genesis 12:3; Deuteronomy 30:7; Zechariah 2:8; Jeremiah 30:20; Acts 9:4–5
- 23 Exodus 23:20; Isaiah 5:13; Genesis 34:2; Genesis 15:19–21; Exodus 32:2
- 24 Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 12:30–31; Numbers 33:52; Deuteronomy 7:5; Deuteronomy 12:3
- 25 Deuteronomy 7:15; Exodus 15:26; Joshua 22:5; Psalm 103:3; Isaiah 33:24
- 26 Deuteronomy 7:14; Deuteronomy 28:4; Job 5:26; Job 21:10; Isaiah 65:20
- 27 Deuteronomy 2:25; Genesis 35:5; Deuteronomy 11:25; Deuteronomy 7:23; Psalm 18:40
- 28 Deuteronomy 7:20; Joshua 24:11–12
- 29 Deuteronomy 7:22; Judges 3:1–4; Joshua 17:12–13; Joshua 15:63; Joshua 16:10
- 31 Genesis 15:18; Deuteronomy 11:24; Joshua 21:44; Numbers 34:3–15; Joshua 1:4
- 32 Exodus 34:12; Deuteronomy 7:2; Exodus 34:15; 2 Corinthians 6:15; Psalm 106:35
- 33 Psalm 106:36; Deuteronomy 7:16; Joshua 23:13; Exodus 34:12; Judges 2:3
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