---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Exodus from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 23
verse_count: 33
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Exodus, chap. 23, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Exodus 23

*Sundry laws An angel promised.*

**1** Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
**2** Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment;
**3** Neither shalt thou countenance a wicked man in his cause.
**4** If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
**5** If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
**6** Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
**7** Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not; for I will not justify the wicked.
**8** And thou shalt take no gift; for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
**9** Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
**10** And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof;
**11** But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy olive-yard.
**12** Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
**13** And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect; and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
**14** Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
**15** Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread; (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt; and none shall appear before me empty;)
**16** And the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field; and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
**17** Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.
**18** Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
**19** The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
**20** Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
**21** Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions; for my name is in him.
**22** But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
**23** For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will cut, them off.
**24** Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
**25** And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water: and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
**26** There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days I will fulfil.
**27** I will send my fear before thee, and I will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come; and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
**28** And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
**29** I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
**30** By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
**31** And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
**32** Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
**33** They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.