Gen Z: Exodus 23
1No cap, don’t be spreading fake tea; don’t vibe with the wicked to be a sus witness.
2Don’t just follow the crowd to do bad stuff; keep it 100 and don’t switch up for the many to mess with justice.
3Don’t play favorites with the poor; keep it real.
4If you see your enemy’s ox or donkey lost, you better return it, fam.
5If you spot your hater’s donkey struggling, don’t just ghost them, help out for real.
6Don’t twist the judgment for the poor; that’s just savage.
7Stay away from fake drama; don’t mess with the innocent, ‘cause I ain’t justifying the wicked, periodt.
8Don’t accept gifts; they mess with your head and twist up the truth.
9Don’t be harsh on strangers; remember, you were once in their shoes.
10For six years, plant your land and gather the harvest, that’s the grind.
11For the seventh year, just let it chill and do its thing; the poor fam can munch on it, and whatever's left is for the animals. Same goes for your vines and olive trees, fr.
12Six days you're grinding, but on the seventh, you gotta rest up: let your ox and donkey chill, and even the homies and strangers can catch a break.
13Keep it 100 with everything I told you: don’t even say the names of other gods, that’s sus.
14You gotta throw a feast for me three times a year, no cap.
15Celebrate the feast of unleavened bread: munch on that for seven days like I told ya during Abib, 'cause that's when you bounced from Egypt. Don’t roll up empty-handed.
16Also, celebrate the harvest feast for the first fruits of your grind, and the ingathering feast at the year's end when you’ve collected all your work.
17Three times a year, all your guys need to show up before the Lord God, periodt.
18Don’t mix my sacrifice's blood with leavened bread; also, don’t let the fat chill until morning.
19Bring the first of your first fruits to the Lord’s crib. And don’t cook a kid in its mom's milk, that's just wrong.
20Yo, I’m sending an Angel ahead of you to guide you and take you to the spot I’ve set up.
21Watch out for him, and vibe with his voice, don’t make him mad; he ain't gonna forgive your mess-ups: my name's in him, no cap.
22But if you really vibe with his voice and do what I say; then I’ll be a savage against your haters, and a boss against your foes.
23My Angel's gonna lead you, and take you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites: I’ll handle them, periodt.
24Don’t bow to their gods, or serve them, or do their stuff: just straight-up take them down and smash their idols.
25You gotta serve the Lord your God, and he’ll bless your food and drink; I’ll keep sickness far away from you, fr.
26Nothing in your land will be barren or lose their young: I’ll make sure you live long, bet.
27I’ll send my fear ahead of you, and take out all the people you meet, making all your enemies back off.
28I’ll send hornets to drive out the Hivite, Canaanite, and Hittite from your path, no cap.
29I won’t kick them out all at once; otherwise, the land will go to waste, and wild animals will come for you.
30Little by little, I’ll clear them out for you, until you grow and take over the land.
31I'm setting your borders from the Red Sea to the Philistine coast, and from the desert to the river. I'm handing the land's peeps over to you, so you can kick them out, no cap.
32Don't be making any deals with them or their gods, fr.
33They can't vibe in your land, or they'll have you sinning against me. If you roll with their gods, it’s gonna be a whole trap, periodt.