Yahweh Cuts a Covenant with Israel

¹⁰ Then ^[a]God said, “Behold, ^(A)I am going to cut a covenant. Before all your people ^(B)I will do wondrous deeds which have not been created in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people ^[b]among whom you live will see the working of Yahweh, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to do with you.

¹¹ “^[c]Be sure to keep what I am commanding you this day: behold, ^(C)I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ^12 (D)Beware lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst. ^13 (E)But rather, you are to tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut down their ^[d](F)Asherim ¹⁴ —for ^(G)you shall not worship any other god, for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God— ¹⁵ lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and ^(H)sacrifice to their gods, and one of them ^(I)invite you ^[e]to eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and ^(J)you take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods. ^17 (K)You shall make for yourself no molten gods.

¹⁸ “You shall keep ^(L)the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For ^(M)seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, which I commanded you, at the appointed time in the ^(N)month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

¹⁹ “^(O)The first offspring from every womb belongs to Me, even of all your male livestock, the first offspring from ^[f]cattle and sheep. ^20 (P)And you shall redeem with a lamb the ^[g]first offspring from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem ^(Q)all the firstborn of your sons. ^[h](R)None shall appear before Me empty-handed.

²¹ “You shall work ^(S)six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest. ²² And you shall celebrate ^(T)the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. ^23 (U)Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel. ²⁴ For I will ^(V)dispossess nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no man shall covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before Yahweh your God.

²⁵ “^(W)You shall not ^[i]offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, ^(X)and the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover shall not ^[j]be left over until morning.

²⁶ “You shall bring ^(Y)the very first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God.

“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

²⁷ Then Yahweh said to Moses, “^(Z)Write ^[k]down these words, for in accordance with these words I have cut ^(AA)a covenant with you and with Israel.” ²⁸ So he was there with Yahweh ^(AB)forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And ^[l](AC)he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, ^(AD)the Ten ^[m]Commandments.