...................................................................LET US LEARN TOGETHER WHAT IS GOOD. Job 34:4b(NIV)................................................................Some people see the Bible as a long and boring book filled with incidents and events from the lives of ancient people who probably never existed. The biblical stories are seen as fables. Notably, Romans 15:4 reveals: For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.(KJV) In this blog, many of the situations and conversations found in the divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible have been placed in categories that correspond to expressive sayings and phrases. Reference information, background information and links connecting the people and places are given to help you find a place to begin reading the Bible for yourself.

Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Do the Do's, Don't the Don'ts, and Be the Be's

Some of the judgments that the Lord God gave Moses for
 the Israelites, months after Moses and his older brother Aaron 
led their fellow Israelites away from Egyptian slavery, across 
the divinely parted Red Sea, into the desert wilderness of
 Shur, and were in the desert wilderness of Sinai:

Exodus Chapter 23:1-13

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 poor 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 oliveyard.

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.

Reference Information:
countenance = tehdar = hadar = honor, adorn, favor

circumspect = tissameru = shamar = keep, watch, preserve

forbear = wehadalta = chadal = cease

wrest = lintot = stretch out, turn aside, bend

wrest = tatteh = natah = stretch/spread out, bend, incline

Reference Scriptures:
And God spake all these words, saying,-Exodus 20:1...Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.-Exodus 20:8-11

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations: that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.-Exodus 31:12-13...It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.-Exodus 31:17
                                      
And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,-Luke 3:23...Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.-Luke 3:38 

Click the link below to read more posts in this category:

http://biblecategorizer.blogspot.com/2019/03/do-dos.html