21 (A)“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

22 “And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.

23 (B)“Three times in the year all your men shall appear before the Lord, the Lord God of Israel. 24 For I will (C)cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

25 “You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, (D)nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.

26 (E)“The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write (F)these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

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21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest;(A) even during the plowing season and harvest(B) you must rest.

22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits(C) of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering(D) at the turn of the year.[a] 23 Three times(E) a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. 24 I will drive out nations(F) before you and enlarge your territory,(G) and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.

25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast,(H) and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.(I)

26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits(J) of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”(K)

27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write(L) down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant(M) with you and with Israel.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 34:22 That is, in the autumn