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Laws of Justice and Mercy
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"Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness. SCode Lev 19:11 Deu 19:16~18 1Ki 21:10 1Ki 21:13 Psa 15:3 Psa 101:5 Psa 35:11 Mt 26:59~61 Act 6:11 Act 6:13
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"Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd,
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and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit. SCode Lev 19:15 Deu 1:17
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"If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it. SCode Deu 22:1 Deu 22:4 Pro 25:21 Mt 5:44 Rom 12:20 1Th 5:15
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If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.
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"Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. SCode Deu 27:19 Ecc 5:8 Isa 10:1~2 Jer 5:28~29 Mal 3:5
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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. SCode Exo 23:1 Exo 34:7 Deu 27:25 Pro 17:26
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"Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent. SCode Deu 16:19 1Sam 8:3 2Chr 19:7 Psa 26:10 Pro 17:23 Isa 33:15 Isa 1:23 Isa 5:23
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"Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt. SCode Exo 22:21
Sabbath Laws
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"For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, SCode Lev 25:3~4
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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 is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
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"Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed. SCode Exo 20:9
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"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. SCode Deu 4:9 Jos 22:5 Jos 23:7 Hos 2:17 Zech 13:2
The Three Annual Festivals
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"Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me. SCode Exo 23:17 Deu 16:16
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"Celebrate the Festival 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 Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. "No one is to appear before me empty-handed. SCode Exo 13:4~5 Exo 12:15 Exo 34:20 Deu 16:16
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"Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. "Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field. SCode Exo 34:22~23 Lev 23:9~21 Lev 23:34~44 Deu 16:13
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"Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord. SCode Exo 23:14
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"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. SCode Exo 12:8 Exo 34:25~26 Lev 2:11~12
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"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. SCode Lev 23:10 Lev 23:17 Num 18:12~13 Deu 26:2 Deu 26:10 Deu 14:21 Neh 10:35 Ezk 44:30
God’s Angel to Prepare the Way
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"See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. SCode Exo 33:2 Exo 33:14 Exo 14:19 Jos 6:2 Jos 5:13~14 Isa 63:9
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Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him. SCode Exo 34:7 Exo 32:34 Num 14:35 Jos 24:19 Psa 78:40 Psa 78:56
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If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. SCode Gen 12:3 Deu 30:7 Jer 30:20
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My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out. SCode Exo 23:20
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Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces. SCode Exo 20:5 Lev 18:3 Num 33:52 Deu 12:3 Deu 7:5 Deu 16:22 Deu 7:25 Deu 12:30~31
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Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, SCode Exo 15:26 Deu 13:4 Deu 28:5 Deu 28:8 Deu 10:12 Deu 6:13 Deu 7:13 Deu 11:13 Deu 10:20 Jos 22:5 Mt 4:10
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and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span. SCode Deu 7:14~15 Job 5:26 Psa 55:23
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"I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run. SCode Deu 2:25 Jos 2:9
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I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way. SCode Deu 7:20 Jos 24:12
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But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you. SCode Deu 7:22~23
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Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.
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"I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you. SCode Gen 15:18 Num 34:3 Deu 11:24 Jos 1:4 Jos 21:44 Jdg 1:4 Jdg 11:21 1Ki 4:21 1Ki 4:24 Psa 72:8
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Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods. SCode Exo 34:12 Exo 34:15 Deu 7:2
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Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you." SCode Exo 34:12~13 Deu 7:16 Jos 23:13 Jdg 2:3 Psa 106:36
NIV Footnotes
  1. 23:31 Or the Sea of Reeds
  2. 23:31 Hebrew to the Sea of the Philistines
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