Read Exodus 23 here or at Bible Gateway.
The Hebrew paragraphs:
23:1-3 {s} Not bearing false witness
23:4 {s} Return your enemy’s ox or donkey
23:5 {s} Relieve your enemy’s donkey’s burden
23:6-19 {p} Not perverting justice + oppressing strangers + Sabbath rest + not naming other gods + harvest feasts
23:20-25 {s} The Angel of YHVH will go before them in the way to Canaan
23:26-33 {p} What YHVH will do to bring them in
The Strong Theme and its Chiastic Structure:
22:25-27 {s} Not coveting interest or collateral from your neighbor
22:28-31 {s} Not coveting what belongs to God
23:1-3 {s} Not bearing false witness
23:4 {s} Return your enemy’s ox or donkey
23:5 {s} Relieve your enemy’s donkey’s burden
23:6-19 {p} Not perverting justice, oppressing strangers/ Sabbath rest/ not naming other gods, harvest feasts
This Strong Theme is continuing YHVH’s initial explanation in what keeping the Ten Commandments means.
22:25-31 {s+s} Do not covet what belongs to your neighbor, or to God
23:1-3 {s} Do not bear false witness
23:6-19 {p} Honor the Sabbath
And the heart of the commandments, which happens to be the central axis of the structure, is, boiled down, not only love your neighbor, but love your enemy.
22:25-23:19 {sx5+p} Strong theme: The purpose of the commandments is love from a pure heart
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