²³ “‘When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, regard its fruit as forbidden.^[a] For three years you are to consider it forbidden^[b]; it must not be eaten.

⁵¹ “You stiff-necked people!^(A) Your hearts^(B) and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!

²⁷ “When a calf, a lamb or a goat^(A) is born, it is to remain with its mother for seven days.^(B) From the eighth day^(C) on, it will be acceptable^(D) as a food offering presented to the Lord.

²⁵ “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh^(A)— ²⁶ Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places.^[a](B) For all these nations are really uncircumcised,^(C) and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.^(D)”

³⁴ “When you enter the land of Canaan,^(A) which I am giving you as your possession,^(B) and I put a spreading mold in a house in that land,

³ On the eighth day^(A) the boy is to be circumcised.^(B)

²⁹ “Do not hold back offerings^(A) from your granaries or your vats.^[a]

“You must give me the firstborn of your sons.^{(B) 30} Do the same with your cattle and your sheep.^(C) Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.^(D)

¹² But Moses said to the Lord, “If the Israelites will not listen^(A) to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips^[a]?”^(B)