Exodus 23:15-25

15 ¹You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of ²Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. ³None shall appear before me empty-handed.

16 You shall keep ⁴the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the ⁵Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.

17 ⁶Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord GOD.

18 ⁷"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.

19 "The best of the ⁸firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. ⁹"You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Conquest of Canaan Promised

20 ¹⁰"Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.

21 Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; ¹¹do not rebel against him, ¹²for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him

22 "But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then ¹³I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

23 ¹⁴"When my angel goes before you and brings you ¹⁵to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out,

24 you shall ¹⁶not bow down to their gods nor serve them, ¹⁷nor do as they do, but ¹⁸you shall utterly overthrow them and break their ¹⁹pillars in pieces.

25 You ²⁰shall serve the LORD your God, and ²¹he^[a] will bless your bread and your water, and ²²I will take sickness away from among you.

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Exodus 23:15-25 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 23

This chapter contains several laws, chiefly judicial, relating to the civil polity of Israel, as concerning witness borne and judgment made of cases in courts of judicature, without any respect to poor or rich, and without the influence of a bribe, Ex 23:1-3,6-8, concerning doing good to an enemy in case any of his cattle go astray, or fall under their burden, Ex 23:4,5, and of the oppression of a stranger, Ex 23:9, and then follow others concerning the sabbath of the seventh year, and of the seventh day, with a caution against the use of the names of idols, Ex 23:10-13, next are laws concerning the appearance of all their males at the three feasts, Ex 23:14-17, and concerning the slaying of the sacrifice of the passover, and bringing the first of the firstfruits of the land, Ex 23:18,19 and then a promise is made of sending an angel to them to bring them into the land of Canaan, where they should carefully avoid all idolatry, and show a just indignation against it, and serve the Lord, and then it would be well with them, Ex 23:20-26, and particularly it is promised, that the Lord would send his fear, and his hornets, before them, to destroy the inhabitants of the land, and drive out the rest by little and little, until they should possess the utmost borders of it, which are fixed, Ex 23:27-31, and the chapter is concluded with a direction not to make a covenant with these people, or their gods, nor suffer them to dwell among them, lest they should be a snare unto them, Ex 23:32,33.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 22

1. See Exodus 12:15
2. Exodus 13:4
3. Exodus 34:20; Deuteronomy 16:16
4. Exodus 34:22; See Leviticus 23:9-21
5. Deuteronomy 16:13; See Leviticus 23:34-44
6. [See ver. 14 above]
7. Exodus 12:8; Exodus 34:25; Leviticus 2:11
8. Exodus 34:26; Leviticus 2:12; Leviticus 23:10, 17; Numbers 18:12, 13; Deuteronomy 26:2, 10; Nehemiah 10:35; Ezekiel 44:30
9. Exodus 34:26; Deuteronomy 14:21
10. Exodus 14:19; Exodus 33:2, 14; Joshua 5:13, 14; Joshua 6:2; Isaiah 63:9
11. Psalms 78:40, 56
12. [Exodus 32:34; Exodus 34:7; Numbers 14:35; Joshua 24:19]
13. Genesis 12:3; Deuteronomy 30:7; Jeremiah 30:20
14. [See ver. 20 above]
15. See Exodus 13:5
16. Exodus 20:5
17. Leviticus 18:3; Deuteronomy 12:30, 31
18. Exodus 34:13; Numbers 33:52; Deuteronomy 7:5, 25; Deuteronomy 12:3
19. See Deuteronomy 16:22
20. Deuteronomy 6:13; Deuteronomy 10:12, 20; Deuteronomy 11:13; Deuteronomy 13:4; Joshua 22:5; Matthew 4:10
21. Deuteronomy 7:13; Deuteronomy 28:5, 8
22. Exodus 15:26; Deuteronomy 7:15

Footnotes 1

[a]. Septuagint, Vulgate I

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