## Onkelos Exodus Chapter 23

###### Onkelos Exodus 23:1
[Onkelos Exodus 23:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:1)

לָא תְקַבֵּל שְׁמַע דִשְׁקָר לָא תְשַׁוִי יְדָךְ עִם חַיָבָא לְמֶהֱוֵי **לֵהּ** סָהִיד שְׁקָר:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Do not accept a false report. Do not join hands with a wicked man to be a corrupt [false] witness [**for him**].


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:2
[Onkelos Exodus 23:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:2)

לָא תְהֵי בָּתַר סַגִיאִין לְאַבְאָשָׁא **וְלָא תִתְמְנַע מִלְאַלָפָא מָא דִבְעֵינָךְ עַל דִינָא** בָּתַר סַגִיאֵי שְׁלַם דִינָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Do not follow the majority to do evil. Do not respond with your opinion in a dispute [merely] to lean [toward one side] [**(Do not) refrain from teaching what is proper in your eyes regarding a judgment**]. It must be decided by the majority.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:3
[Onkelos Exodus 23:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:3)

וְעַל מִסְכֵּינָא לָא תְרַחֵם **בְּדִינֵהּ**:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Do not show favor [even] to the poor in his dispute [**judgment**].


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:4
[Onkelos Exodus 23:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:4)

אֲרֵי תִפְגַע תּוֹרָא דְסָנְאָךְ אוֹ חֲמָרֵהּ דְטָעֵי אָתָבָא תְּתִיבִנֵהּ לֵהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
If you come across your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, bring it back to him.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:5
[Onkelos Exodus 23:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:5)

אֲרֵי תֶחֱזֵי חֲמָרָא דְסָנְאָךְ רְבִיעַ תְּחוֹת טוֹעֲנֵיהּ **וְתִתִּמְנַע מִלְמִשְׁבַּק לֵהּ** מִשְׁבַּק **תִּשְׁבּוֹק מָא דִבְלִבָּךְ עֲלוֹהִי וּתְפָרֵק עִמֵהּ**:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
If you see the donkey of your enemy lying under its burden, and you might not want to help him [**stop yourself from abandoning him**], [but you should] [**[you should]**] make every effort to help him [**abandon what is in you heart against him and unload with him**] .


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:6
[Onkelos Exodus 23:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:6)

לָא תַצְלֵי דִין מִסְכֵּינָךְ בְּדִינֵהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Do not bend justice [even] for your needy in his dispute.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:7
[Onkelos Exodus 23:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:7)

מִפִּתְגָמָא דְשִׁקְרָא הֱוֵי רָחִיק **וְדִזְכֵי וְדִי נְפַק (דְכֵי) מִן דִינָא** לָא תִקְטוֹל אֲרֵי לָא אֱזַכֵּי חַיָבָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Keep far away from anything false. Do not kill an [**one who is**] innocent [**or one who goes out innocent from judgment**] righteous man, for I will not acquit a wicked person.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:8
[Onkelos Exodus 23:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:8)

וְשׁוֹחֲדָא לָא תְקַבֵּל אֲרֵי שׁוֹחֲדָא מְעַוֵר **עֵינֵי חַכִּימִין** וּמְקַלְקֵל פִּתְגָמִין תְּרִיצִין:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Do not accept bribery, for bribery blinds the clear-sighted [**eyes of the wise**], and perverts the words of justice.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:9
[Onkelos Exodus 23:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:9)

וְגִיוֹרָא לָא תְעִיקוּן וְאַתּוּן יְדַעְתּוּן יָת נַפְשָׁא דְגִיוֹרָא אֲרֵי דַיָרִין הֲוֵיתוּן בְּאַרְעָא דְמִצְרָיִם:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Do not oppress a stranger. You [should] know the soul [feelings] of the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:10
[Onkelos Exodus 23:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:10)

וְשִׁית שְׁנִין תִּזְרַע יָת אַרְעָךְ וְתִכְנוֹשׁ יָת עֲלַלְתַּהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
You may sow your land for six years, and gather its crops.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:11
[Onkelos Exodus 23:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:11)

וּשְׁבִעֵתָא תַּשְׁמְטִנַהּ וְתַרְטְשִׁנַהּ וְיֵיכְלוּן מִסְכְּנֵי עַמָךְ וּשְׁאָרְהוֹן תֵּיכוּל חֵיוַת בָּרָא כֵּן תַּעְבֵּד לְכַרְמָךְ לְזֵיתָךְ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
But on the seventh [year] you must let it rest, and abandon it [by not eating its produce], and let the needy among your people eat it. What they leave over, the beasts of the field can eat. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive [trees].


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:12
[Onkelos Exodus 23:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:12)

שִׁתָּא יוֹמִין תַּעְבֵּד עוֹבָדָיךְ וּבְיוֹמָא שְׁבִיעָאָה תָּנוּחַ בְּדִיל דִינוּחַ תּוֹרָךְ וְחַמָרָךְ וְיִשְּׁקוֹט בַּר אַמְתָךְ וְגִיוֹרָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
You may do your work six days, but on the seventh day you must cease; so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave may be refreshed, and [also] the stranger.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:13
[Onkelos Exodus 23:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:13)

וּבְכֹל דִי אֲמָרִית לְכוֹן תִּסְתַּמְרוּן וְשׁוּם **טַעֲוַת עַמְמַיָא** לָא תִדְכְּרוּן לָא יִשְׁתְּמַע עַל פּוּמְכוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Preserve everything that I have said to you. Do not mention the name of other [**false**] gods [**of the peoples**]. You must not cause it to be heard through your mouth.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:14
[Onkelos Exodus 23:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:14)

תְּלַת זִמְנִין תֵּחוֹג **קֳדָמַי** בְּשַׁתָּא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Three times a year you are to celebrate with [**before**] Me.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:15
[Onkelos Exodus 23:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:15)

יָת חַגָא דְפַטִירַיָא תִּטַר שִׁבְעָא יוֹמִין תֵּיכוּל פַּטִירָא כְּמָא דִפַקֵידִתָּךְ לִזְמַן יַרְחָא דַאֲבִיבָא אֲרֵי בֵהּ נְפַקְתָּ מִמִצְרָיִם וְלָא יִתְחֲזוּן **קֳדָמַי** רֵיקָנוּן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
You must keep the festival of Matzos. You must eat matzos for seven days, as I have commanded you. [This festival must be celebrated] at the appointed time, during the month when the grain is ripened, for in it [at this time] you went out of Egypt. Do not appear before My Presence [**Me**] empty-handed.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:16
[Onkelos Exodus 23:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:16)

וְחַגָא דַחֲצָדָא בִּכּוּרֵי עוֹבָדָיךְ דִי תִזְרַע בְּחַקְלָא וְחַגָא דִכְנָשָׁא בְּמִפְּקָא דְשַׁתָּא בְּמִכְנְשָׁךְ יָת עוֹבָדָיךְ מִן חַקְלָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
[You must also keep] the Festival of Harvest, [with bringing bikurim] the first fruits of your labor, which you planted in the field; [also] the Festival of Ingathering, at the close of the year, when you gather in [the fruits of] your labor from the field.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:17
[Onkelos Exodus 23:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:17)

תְּלַת זִמְנִין בְּשַׁתָּא יִתְחֲזוּן כָּל דְכוּרָךְ קֳדָם רִבּוֹן **עָלְמָא** יְיָ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Three times a year, every male among you must appear before the Presence of the Master [**of the world**], Adonoy.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:18
[Onkelos Exodus 23:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:18)

לָא תִכּוֹס עַל חֲמִיעַ דַם פִּסְחִי וְלָא יְבִיתוּן **בַּר מִן מַדְבְּחָא תַּרְבֵּי** נִכְסַת **חַגָא** עַד צַפְרָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
You must not sacrifice—while chometz is present—My [Pesach] sacrifice. You must not allow to remain overnight [**off the Altar**]—the fat[**s**] of My [**the**] festival-offering—until morning.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:19
[Onkelos Exodus 23:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:19)

רֵישׁ בִּכּוּרֵי אַרְעָךְ תַּיְתִי לְבֵית **מִקְדְשָׁא** דַיְיָ אֱלָהָךְ לָא **תֵיכְלוּן בְּשַׂר בַּחֲלָב**:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The beginning of the first fruits of your land must be brought to the House of [**the Sanctuary of**] Adonoy, your God. You must not cook a young animal in the milk of its mother [**eat meat with milk**].


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:20
[Onkelos Exodus 23:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:20)

הָא אֲנָא שָׁלַח מַלְאָכָא קֳדָמָךְ לְמִטְרָךְ בְּאָרְחָא וּלְאָעֳלוּתָךְ לְאַתְרָא דִאַתְקֵנִית:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Behold, I will send an angel before you, to guard you on the way, and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:21
[Onkelos Exodus 23:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:21)

אִסְתַּמַּר מִן קֳדָמוֹהִי וְקַבֵּל **לְמֵימְרֵהּ** לָא תְסָרֵב לְקִבְלֵהּ אֲרֵי לָא יִשְׁבּוֹק לְחוֹבֵיכוֹן אֲרֵי **בִ**שְׁמִי **מֵימְרֵהּ**:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Be careful in his presence and heed [obey] his voice [**word**]. Do not rebel against him; for he cannot bear [pardon] your transgression, as [**in**] My Name is in him [**his word**].


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:22
[Onkelos Exodus 23:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:22)

אֲרֵי אִם קַבָּלָא תְקַבֵּל לְמֵימְרֵהּ וְתַעְבֵּד כֹּל דֶאֱמַלֵל וְאֶסְנֵי יָת סָנְאָךְ וְאָעִיק לְדִמְעִיקִין לָךְ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
But if you truly listen to [obey] his voice [**word**], and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and attack those who attack you.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:23
[Onkelos Exodus 23:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:23)

אֲרֵי יְהַךְ מַלְאָכִי קֳדָמָךְ וְיָעֵלִנָךְ לְוָת אֱמוֹרָאֵי וְחִתָּאֵי וּפְרִיזָאֵי וּכְנַעֲנָאֵי חִוָאֵי וִיבוּסָאֵי וֶאֱשֵׁצִנוּן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
My messenger will go before you, and will bring you into [the land of] the Emorites, the Chittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, Chivites, and the Yevusites, and I will then annihilate them.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:24
[Onkelos Exodus 23:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:24)

לָא תִסְגוּד **לְטַעֲוָתְהוֹן** וְלָא תִפְלְחִנוּן וְלָא תַעְבֵּד כְּעוֹבָדֵיהוֹן אֲרֵי פַגָרָא תְּפַגְרִנוּן וְתַבָּרָא תְתַבַּר קָמָתְהוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
You must not prostrate yourself to their [**false**] gods, nor serve [sacrifice to] them. You must not adopt their customs. You must totally destroy [their idols] and completely break down their monuments.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:25
[Onkelos Exodus 23:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:25)

וְתִפְלְחוּן **קֳדָם** יְיָ אֱלָהֲכוֹן וִיבָרֵךְ יָת **מֵיכְלָךְ** וְיָת **מִשְׁתְּיָךְ** וְאַעְדִי מַרְעִין **בִּישִׁין** מִבֵּינָךְ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
You must serve [**before**] Adonoy, your God, and He will bless your bread [**food**] and your water [**drink**]. I will eliminate [**bad**] sickness from your midst.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:26
[Onkelos Exodus 23:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:26)

לָא תְהֵי מְתַכְּלָא וְעַקְרָא בְּאַרְעָךְ יָת מִנְיַן יוֹמָיךְ אַשְׁלִים:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
No woman will suffer miscarriage or remain childless in your land. I will cause the number of your days to be full.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:27
[Onkelos Exodus 23:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:27)

יָת אֵימְתִי אֲשַׁלַח קֳדָמָךְ וְאִיתְבַּר (נ"א וֶאֱשַׁגֵשׁ) יָת כָּל עַמָא דְאַתְּ אָתֵי **לַאֲגָחָא בְּהוֹן** וְאֶמְסַר יָת כָּל בַּעֲלֵי דְבָבָךְ **קֳדָמָךְ** מְחַזְרֵי קְדָל:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
I will send My dread ahead of you, and I will bring panic to all the people among whom you will come [**to fight against**]. I will make all your enemies turn their backs to [**before**] you.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:28
[Onkelos Exodus 23:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:28)

וְאֶשְׁלַח יָת עֲרָעִיתָא קֳדָמָךְ וּתְתָרֵךְ יָת חִוָאֵי יָת כְּנַעֲנָאֵי וְיָת חִתָּאֵי מִן קֳדָמָךְ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
I will send [deadly] hornets ahead of you, and they will drive out the Chivites, the Canaanites, and the Chittites from before you.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:29
[Onkelos Exodus 23:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:29)

לָא אֱתָרֵכִנוּן מִן קֳדָמָךְ בְּשַׁתָּא חֲדָא דִילְמָא תְהֵי אַרְעָא צַדְיָא וְתִסְגֵי עֲלָךְ חֵיוַת בָּרָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
I will not drive them out in a single year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against you.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:30
[Onkelos Exodus 23:30](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:30)

זְעֵיר זְעֵיר אֱתָרֵכִנוּן מִן קֳדָמָךְ עַד דְתִסְגֵי וְתַחְסֵן יָת אַרְעָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Little by little I will drive them from before you, until you have increased and occupy the land.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:31
[Onkelos Exodus 23:31](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:31)

וֶאֱשַׁוֵי יָת תְּחוּמָךְ מִיַמָא דְסוּף וְעַד יַמָא דִפְלִשְׁתָּאֵי וּמִמַדְבְּרָא עַד פְּרָת אֲרֵי אֶמְסַר בִּידֵיכוֹן יָת יָתְבֵי אַרְעָא וּתְתָרֵכִנוּן מִן קֳדָמָךְ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
I will set your borders from the Reed Sea to the Philistine Sea, and from the desert to the [Euphrates] river, for I will deliver into your hands all the inhabitants of the land, and you will drive them away before you.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:32
[Onkelos Exodus 23:32](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:32)

לָא תִגְזַר לְהוֹן **וּלְטַעֲוָתְהוֹן** קְיָם:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Do not make a pact with them or with their [**false**] gods.


###### Onkelos Exodus 23:33
[Onkelos Exodus 23:33](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Exodus/r/23:33)

לָא יֵתְבוּן בְּאַרְעָךְ דִילְמָא יְחַיְבוּן יָתָךְ **קֳדָמָי** אֲרֵי תִפְלַח יָת טַעֲוָתְהוֹן אֲרֵי יְהוֹן לָךְ לְתַקְלָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Do not allow them to live in your land, since they may cause you to sin to [**before**] Me; that you [might] worship their [**false**] gods, and this would be a [fatal] trap to you.