Blessed Are the Forgiven

A Maskil^[a] of David.

Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals

^10 (A)“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, ¹¹ but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

^12 (B)“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.

^13 (C)“Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.

^14 (D)“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. ^15 (E)You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of ^(F)Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. ^(G)None shall appear before me empty-handed. ¹⁶ You shall keep ^(H)the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the ^(I)Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. ^17 (J)Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.

^18 (K)“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.

¹⁹ “The best of the ^(L)firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.

^(M)“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Conquest of Canaan Promised

^20 (N)“Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. ²¹ Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; ^(O)do not rebel against him, ^(P)for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.

²² “But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then ^(Q)I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

^23 (R)“When my angel goes before you and brings you ^(S)to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, ²⁴ you shall ^(T)not bow down to their gods nor serve them, ^(U)nor do as they do, but ^(V)you shall utterly overthrow them and break their ^(W)pillars in pieces. ²⁵ You ^(X)shall serve the Lord your God, and ^(Y)he^[a] will bless your bread and your water, and ^(Z)I will take sickness away from among you. ^26 (AA)None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the ^(AB)number of your days. ²⁷ I will send ^(AC)my terror before you and will throw into ^(AD)confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. ²⁸ And ^(AE)I will send hornets^[b] before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. ^29 (AF)I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you. ³⁰ Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. ^31 (AG)And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates,^[c] for ^(AH)I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. ^32 (AI)You shall make no covenant with them and their gods. ³³ They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, ^(AJ)it will surely be a snare to you.”

The Passover with the Disciples

^7 (A)Then came ^(B)the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. ⁸ So Jesus^[a] sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat it.” ⁹ They said to him, “Where will you have us prepare it?” ¹⁰ He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters ¹¹ and tell the master of the house, ^(C)‘The Teacher says to you, Where is ^(D)the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ ¹² And he will show you ^(E)a large upper room furnished; prepare it there.” ¹³ And they went and found it ^(F)just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

Institution of the Lord's Supper

^14 (G)And when the hour came, he reclined at table, and the apostles with him. ¹⁵ And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. ¹⁶ For I tell you I will not eat it^{[b] (H)}until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” ¹⁷ And he took a cup, and ^(I)when he had given thanks he said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves. ^18 (J)For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine ^(K)until the kingdom of God comes.” ^19 (L)And he took bread, and ^(M)when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, ^(N)“This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” ²⁰ And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, ^(O)“This cup that is poured out for you is ^(P)the new ^(Q)covenant in my blood.^[c]