Hi everyone, this is Erica Kirk, and I just want to share that this episode has been recorded by one of our Bible in 365 team members due to a post-production glitch in a previous version, and so that's why we've had to start fresh.

We've refreshed it to ensure it aligns with the Bible and 365 standard of clarity and excellence, and we are blessed to have you a part of the Bible in

365 family. Now let's dive into the word. Exodus chapter 23. You shall not spread a false

report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. You shall not fall in with the many to do evil,

nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many so as to pervert justice,

nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit. If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey

going astray, you shall bring it back to him.

If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from

leaving him with it. You shall rescue it with him. You shall not pervert the justice due to your

poor in his lawsuit. Keep far from a false charge and do not kill the innocent and righteous,

for I will not acquit the wicked.

And you shall take no bribe,

for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted

and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

You shall not oppress a sojourner.

You know the heart of a sojourner,

for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Laws about the Sabbath and festivals.

For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield,

but the seventh year you shall let it rest in life follow,

that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the priest of the field may eat.

You shall do likewise with your vineyard and with your olive orchard.

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