²³ “When you come into the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall regard their fruit as forbidden;^[a] three years it shall be forbidden^[b] to you; it must not be eaten.

⁵¹ “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.^(A)

²⁷ “When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as the Lord’s offering by fire.^[a](A)

²⁵ The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will attend to all those who are circumcised only in the foreskin:^{(A) 26} Egypt, Judah, Edom, the Ammonites, Moab, and all those with shaved temples who live in the desert. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.^(B)

³⁴ “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a defiling disease in a house in the land of your possession,^(A)

³ On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.^(A)

²⁹ “You shall not delay to make offerings from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses.^[a]

“The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.^{(A) 30} You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall remain with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.^(B)

³⁰ But Moses said to the Lord, “Since I am a poor speaker,^[a] why should Pharaoh listen to me?”^(A)

¹² But Moses spoke to the Lord, “The Israelites have not listened to me; why should Pharaoh listen to me, poor speaker that I am?”^[a]