³ You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.

¹⁷ Therefore,

¹⁵ Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress.

¹¹ Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica,^(A) for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures^(B) every day to see if what Paul said was true.^(C)

Moral Benefits of Wisdom

BOOK I

Psalms 1–41

Psalm 1

³ Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction,^(A) because you left Egypt in haste^(B)—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.^{(C) 4} Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening^(D) of the first day remain until morning.^(E)

⁵ You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the Lord your God gives you ⁶ except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary^[a](F) of your departure from Egypt. ⁷ Roast^(G) it and eat it at the place the Lord your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents. ⁸ For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly^(H) to the Lord your God and do no work.^(I)