Exodus 23:10-19

English Standard Version

Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals

^10 (A)“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, ¹¹ but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

^12 (B)“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.

^13 (C)“Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.

^14 (D)“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. ^15 (E)You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of ^(F)Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. ^(G)None shall appear before me empty-handed. ¹⁶ You shall keep ^(H)the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the ^(I)Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. ^17 (J)Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.

^18 (K)“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.

¹⁹ “The best of the ^(L)firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.

^(M)“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.