Exodus 23:14-23

English Standard Version

^14 (A)“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. ^15 (B)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 ^(C)Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. ^(D)None shall appear before me empty-handed. ¹⁶ You shall keep ^(E)the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the ^(F)Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. ^17 (G)Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.

^18 (H)“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 ^(I)firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.

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

Conquest of Canaan Promised

^20 (K)“Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. ²¹ Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; ^(L)do not rebel against him, ^(M)for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.

²² “But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then ^(N)I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

^23 (O)“When my angel goes before you and brings you ^(P)to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out,