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Exodus 23:21

Obedience

19 Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

20 Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.

Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.

22 But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

23 For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.
KJV
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
WEB
Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
ASV
Take ye heed before him, and hearken unto his voice; provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgression: for my name is in him.
DARBY
Be careful in his presence, and hearken unto his voice: do not provoke him, for he will not forgive your transgressions; for my name is in him.
BLB
Be guarded from his face and listen to his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your⁺ transgressions, for My name [is] within him.
ÅB
Ta deg i vare for ham og hør på hans røst, vær ikke gjenstridig mot ham! Han skal ikke bære over med deres overtredelser, for mitt navn er i ham.
OTB
Vær oppmerksom på ham og lytt til hans røst; vær ikke opprørsk mot ham, for han vil ikke tilgi dine overtredelser, siden mitt navn er i ham.
B1930
Ta dig i vare for ham og hør på hans røst, vær ikke gjenstridig mot ham! Han skal ikke bære over med eders overtredelser, for mitt navn er i ham.

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Cross references

  • Psalms 78:56

    But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

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  • Hebrews 12:25

    See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?

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  • Psalms 78:40

    How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

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  • John 10:38

    But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works themselves, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father.”

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  • John 10:30

    I and the Father are one.”

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  • Joshua 24:19

    But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.

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  • John 5:23

    so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

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  • Hebrews 10:26–29

    If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

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