16. Observe the Harvest Festival for the early produce of your crops that you planted in the field, and the Gathering Festival at the end of the year, when you gather your crop of fruit from the field.
17. All your males should appear three times a year before the Lord God.
18. Don’t offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened. Don’t let the fat of my festival offering be left over until the morning.
19. Bring the best of your land’s early produce to the Lord your God’s temple.Don’t boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
20. I’m about to send a messenger in front of you to guard you on your way and to bring you to the place that I’ve made ready.
21. Pay attention to him and do as he says. Don’t rebel against him. He won’t forgive the things you do wrong because I am with him.
22. But if you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, then I’ll be an enemy to your enemies and fight those fighting you.
23. When my messenger goes in front of you and brings you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I wipe them out,
24. don’t bow down to their gods, worship them, or do what they do. Instead, you should completely destroy them and smash their sacred stone pillars to bits.
25. If you worship the Lord your God, the Lord will bless your bread and your water. I’ll take sickness away from you,