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The Annual Festivals

14 “Three times in the year you shall hold a festival for me. 15 You shall observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread; as I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt.

“No one shall appear before me empty-handed.(A)

16 “You shall observe the Festival of Harvest, of the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall observe the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.(B) 17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.

18 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened or let the fat of my festival remain until the morning.

19 “The choicest of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.

“You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.(C)

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Three National Feasts

14 (A)Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. 15 You 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. 16 Also 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:15 Lit it
  2. Exodus 23:15 Lit they shall not
  3. Exodus 23:17 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
  4. Exodus 23:18 Or festival