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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Protection of Property</span></div><div class="p"><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 22:1 is numbered 21:37, and 22:2-31 is numbered 22:1-30.</span><span class="ft"> </span></span></span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.22.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a thief is caught breaking in at night and is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.22.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If the stolen animal is found alive in their possession&#8212;whether ox or donkey or sheep&#8212;they must pay back double.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.22.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone grazes their livestock in a field or vineyard and lets them stray and they graze in someone else&#8217;s field, the offender must make restitution from the best of their own field or vineyard.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.22.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a fire breaks out and spreads into thornbushes so that it burns shocks of grain or standing grain or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make restitution.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.22.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone gives a neighbor silver or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor&#8217;s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But if the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges, and they must</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">22:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">before God, and he will</span></span></span><span class="content"> determine whether the owner of the house has laid hands on the other person&#8217;s property. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any other lost property about which somebody says, &#8216;This is mine,&#8217; both parties are to bring their cases before the judges.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">22:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">before God</span></span></span><span class="content"> The one whom the judges declare</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">22:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">whom God declares</span></span></span><span class="content"> guilty must pay back double to the other.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.22.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep or any other animal to their neighbor for safekeeping and it dies or is injured or is taken away while no one is looking, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">the issue between them will be settled by the taking of an oath before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that the neighbor did not lay hands on the other person&#8217;s property. The owner is to accept this, and no restitution is required. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But if the animal was stolen from the neighbor, restitution must be made to the owner. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If it was torn to pieces by a wild animal, the neighbor shall bring in the remains as evidence and shall not be required to pay for the torn animal.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.22.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone borrows an animal from their neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, they must make restitution. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But if the owner is with the animal, the borrower will not have to pay. If the animal was hired, the money paid for the hire covers the loss.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Social Responsibility</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.22.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.22.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not allow a sorceress to live.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.22.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal is to be put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.22.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> must be destroyed.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">22:20 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.22.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.22.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.22.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">If you take your neighbor&#8217;s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.22.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not blaspheme God</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">22:28 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Do not revile the judges</span></span></span><span class="content"> or curse the ruler of your people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.22.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">22:29 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.22.29"><span class="content">&#8220;You must give me the firstborn of your sons. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.22.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are to be my holy people. So do not eat the meat of an animal torn by wild beasts; throw it to the dogs.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Laws of Justice and Mercy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.23.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.23.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you come across your enemy&#8217;s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">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.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.23.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">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.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.23.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.23.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sabbath Laws</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.23.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">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.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.23.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;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.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.23.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;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.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Three Annual Festivals</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.23.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.23.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;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.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.23.15"><span class="content">&#8220;No one is to appear before me empty-handed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.23.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.23.16"><span class="content">&#8220;Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.23.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.23.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.23.18"><span class="content">&#8220;The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.23.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.23.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not cook a young goat in its mother&#8217;s milk.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Angel to Prepare the Way</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.23.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;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. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Worship the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.23.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;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. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.23.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will establish your borders from the Red Sea</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">23:31 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Sea of Reeds</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the Mediterranean Sea,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">23:31 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">to the Sea of the Philistines</span></span></span><span class="content"> 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. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EXO.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">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.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.31.8"><span class="content">for the rights of all who are destitute.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.31.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Speak up and judge fairly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.31.9"><span class="content">defend the rights of the poor and needy.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CO.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CO.10.24"></span></div>
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