Exodus 23:14-33

New American Standard Bible

Three National Feasts

¹⁴“^(A)Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. ¹⁵You shall keep ^(B)the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the ^(C)month of Abib, for in ^[a]that month you came out of Egypt. And ^[b]^(D)no one is to appear before Me empty-handed. ¹⁶Also you shall keep ^(E)the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year ^(F)when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field. ¹⁷^(G)Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord ^[c]God.

¹⁸“^(H)You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; ^(I)nor is the fat of My ^[d]feast to remain overnight until morning.

¹⁹“You shall bring ^(J)the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God.

“^(K)You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

Conquest of the Land

²⁰“Behold, I am going to send ^(L)an angel before you to guard you along the way and ^(M)to bring you into the place which I have prepared. ²¹Be attentive to him and obey his voice; ^(N)do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your rebellion, since ^(O)My name is in him. ²²But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then ^(P)I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. ²³^(Q)For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them. ²⁴^(R)You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; ^(S)but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their ^(T)memorial stones in pieces. ²⁵^(U)And you shall serve the Lord your God, ^[e]and He will bless your bread and your water; and ^(V)I will remove sickness from your midst. ²⁶There will be no one miscarrying or ^(W)unable to have children in your land; ^(X)I will fulfill the number of your days. ²⁷I will ^(Y)send My terror ahead of you, and ^(Z)throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will ^(AA)make all your enemies turn their backs to you. ²⁸And I will send ^(AB)hornets ahead of you so that they will ^(AC)drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from you. ²⁹^(AD)I will not drive them out from you in a single year, so that the land will not become desolate and the animals of the field become too numerous for you. ³⁰I will drive them out from you ^(AE)little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land. ³¹^(AF)I will set your boundary from the ^[f]Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River; ^(AG)for I will hand over the inhabitants of the land to you, and you will ^(AH)drive them out from you. ³²^(AI)You shall ^[g]make no covenant with them ^(AJ)or with their gods. ³³^(AK)They shall not live in your land, otherwise they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, ^(AL)it is certain to be a snare to you.”