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Exodus 23

Ex. 23:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou shalt not follow
'achar (Hebrew #310)
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV usage: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
Pronounce: akh-ar'
Origin: from 309
a multitude
rab (Hebrew #7227)
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
KJV usage: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), ((ship-))master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
Pronounce: rab
Origin: by contracted from 7231
e to do evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
; neither shalt thou γspeak
`anah (Hebrew #6030)
properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extens. to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce
KJV usage: give account, afflict (by mistake for 6031), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for 6031), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, X scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also 1042, 1043.
Pronounce: aw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
in a cause
riyb (Hebrew #7379)
from 7378; a contest (personal or legal)
KJV usage: + adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(-ing), suit.
Pronounce: reeb
Origin: or rib {reeb}
to decline
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
after
'achar (Hebrew #310)
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV usage: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
Pronounce: akh-ar'
Origin: from 309
many
rab (Hebrew #7227)
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
KJV usage: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), ((ship-))master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
Pronounce: rab
Origin: by contracted from 7231
to wrest
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
judgment:
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1 Kings 19:10• 10And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword, and I, even I, only am left, and they seek my life, to take it away. (1 Kings 19:10)
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Job 31:34• 34Because I feared the great multitude,{HR}And the contempt of families terrified me,{HR}So that I am silent, I go not out of the door. (Job 31:34)
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answer.

Cross References

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follow.
Ex. 32:1‑5• 1And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people collected together to Aaron, and said to him, Up, make us a god, who will go before us; for this Moses, the man that has brought us up out of the land of Egypt, —we do not know what is become of him!
 2And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden rings that are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.
 3Then all the people broke off the golden rings that were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.
 4And he took them out of their hand, and fashioned it with a chisel and made of it a molten calf: and they said, This is thy god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt!
 5And Aaron saw it , and built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, Tomorrow is a feast to Jehovah! (Ex. 32:1‑5)
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Gen. 6:12• 12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. (Gen. 6:12)
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Gen. 7:1• 1And Jehovah said to Noah, Go into the ark, thou and all thy house; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. (Gen. 7:1)
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Gen. 19:4,7‑9• 4Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter.
 7and said, I pray you, my brethren, do not wickedly!
 8Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man: let me now bring them out to you; and do to them as is good in your sight: only, to these men do nothing; for therefore have they come under the shadow of my roof.
 9And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. (Gen. 19:4,7‑9)
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Num. 14:1‑10• 1And the whole congregation lifted up their voice again and cried, and the people wept that night.
 2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses, and against Aaron, and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God that we had died in this wilderness!
 3And why is Jehovah bringing us to this land that we may fall by the sword, that our wives and our little ones may become a prey? Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?
 4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return unto Egypt.
 5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
 6And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, of them that searched out the land, rent their clothes;
 7and they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed through to search it is an exceeding good land.
 8If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it us — a land, which floweth with milk and honey.
 9Only rebel not ye against Jehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and Jehovah is with us. Fear them not.
 10But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel. (Num. 14:1‑10)
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Josh. 24:15• 15And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods whom your fathers that were on the other side of the river served, or the gods of the Amorite, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah. (Josh. 24:15)
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1 Sam. 15:9• 9But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. (1 Sam. 15:9)
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1 Kings 19:10• 10And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword, and I, even I, only am left, and they seek my life, to take it away. (1 Kings 19:10)
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Job 31:34• 34Because I feared the great multitude,{HR}And the contempt of families terrified me,{HR}So that I am silent, I go not out of the door. (Job 31:34)
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Prov. 1:10‑11,15• 10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent not.
 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood,{HR}Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
 15My son, walk not in the way with them,{HR}Keep back thy foot from their path. (Prov. 1:10‑11,15)
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Prov. 4:14• 14Enter not into the path of the wicked,{HR}And go not into the way of evil [men]; (Prov. 4:14)
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Matt. 27:24‑26• 24And Pilate, seeing that it availed nothing, but that rather a tumult was arising, having taken water, washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this righteous one: see ye [to it].
 25And all the people answering said, His blood [be] on us and on our children.
 26Then he released to them Barabbas; but Jesus, having scourged [him], he delivered up that he might be crucified. (Matt. 27:24‑26)
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Mark 15:15• 15And Pilate, desirous of contenting the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and delivered up Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified. (Mark 15:15)
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Luke 23:23‑24,51• 23But they were urgent with loud voices begging that he might be crucified; and their voices [and those of the high priests] prevailed.
 24And Pilate gave sentence that what they begged should take place,
 51(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea a city of the Jews, who waited for the kingdom of God, (Luke 23:23‑24,51)
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John 7:50‑51• 50Nicodemus saith unto them, being one of them,
 51Doth our law judge the man, unless it have first heard from him, and know what he doeth? (John 7:50‑51)
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Acts 24:27• 27But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and Felix, willing to gain favour with the Jews, left Paul in bonds. (Acts 24:27)
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Acts 25:9• 9But Festus, desirous to gain favour with the Jews, answered Paul and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me? (Acts 25:9)
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Rom. 1:32• 32which, knowing right well the righteous award of God that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practice them but also have a fellow-pleasure in those that do [them]. (Rom. 1:32)
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Gal. 2:11‑13• 11But when Cephas came unto Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was self-condemned;
 12for before that certain came from James, he ate with the nations; but when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, being afraid of those of the circumcision;
 13and the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation. (Gal. 2:11‑13)
speak.
or, answer.
to decline.
Ex. 23:6‑7• 6Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
 7Thou shalt keep far from the cause of falsehood; and the innocent and righteous slay not; for I will not justify the wicked. (Ex. 23:6‑7)
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Lev. 19:15• 15Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shall not respect the person of the lowly, nor honour the person of the mighty; in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. (Lev. 19:15)
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Deut. 1:17• 17Ye shall not respect persons in judgment: ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's; and the matter that is too hard for you shall ye bring to me, that I may hear it. (Deut. 1:17)
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Psa. 72:2• 2He shall judge thy people with righteousness{HR}And thine afflicted with judgment. (Psa. 72:2)
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Jer. 37:15,21• 15Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
 21Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. (Jer. 37:15,21)
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Jer. 38:5‑6,9• 5Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do anything against you.
 6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
 9My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city. (Jer. 38:5‑6,9)
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Ezek. 9:9• 9Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the earth, and Jehovah seeth not. (Ezek. 9:9)
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Hag. 1:4• 4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? (Hag. 1:4)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou shalt not follow the multitude for evil; neither shalt thou answer in a cause, to go after the multitude to pervert judgment.

W. Kelly Translation

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Thou shalt not follow the multitude for evil; neither shalt thou answer in a cause, to go after the multitude to pervert judgment.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)