18 “You shall keep (A)the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For (B)seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, [a]as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the (C)month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

19 (D)The [b]firstborn from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the [c]firstborn from [d]cattle and sheep. 20 (E)You shall redeem with a lamb the firstborn from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem (F)all the firstborn of your sons. [e](G)None are to appear before Me empty-handed.

21 “You shall work (H)six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest. 22 And you shall celebrate (I)the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. 23 (J)Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord [f]God, the God of Israel. 24 For I will [g](K)drive out nations from you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the Lord your God.

25 (L)You shall not [h]offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, (M)nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to [i]be left over until morning.

26 “You shall bring (N)the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God.

“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 34:18 Or which
  2. Exodus 34:19 Lit every firstborn of a womb
  3. Exodus 34:19 Lit every firstborn of a womb
  4. Exodus 34:19 Or oxen
  5. Exodus 34:20 Lit They shall not
  6. Exodus 34:23 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
  7. Exodus 34:24 Or dispossess
  8. Exodus 34:25 Lit slaughter
  9. Exodus 34:25 Lit remain overnight

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