21 “Work six days and rest the seventh. Stop working even during plowing and harvesting.

22 “Keep the Feast of Weeks with the first cutting of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

23-24 “All your men are to appear before the Master, the God of Israel, three times a year. You won’t have to worry about your land when you appear before your God three times each year, for I will drive out the nations before you and give you plenty of land. Nobody’s going to be hanging around plotting ways to get it from you.

Read full chapter

21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest;(A) even during the plowing season and harvest(B) you must rest.

22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits(C) of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering(D) at the turn of the year.[a] 23 Three times(E) a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 34:22 That is, in the autumn