13. “Listen to everything that I, the Lord, have said to you. Do not pray to other gods; do not even mention their names.
14. “Celebrate three festivals a year to honour me.
15. In the month of Abib, the month in which you left Egypt, celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the way that I commanded you. Do not eat any bread made with yeast during the seven days of this festival. Never come to worship me without bringing an offering.
16. “Celebrate the Harvest Festival when you begin to harvest your crops.“Celebrate the Festival of Shelters in the autumn, when you gather the fruit from your vineyards and orchards.
17. Every year at these three festivals all your men must come to worship me, the Lord your God.
18. “Do not offer bread made with yeast when you sacrifice an animal to me. The fat of animals sacrificed to me during these festivals is not to be left until the following morning.
19. “Each year bring to the house of the Lord your God the first corn that you harvest.“Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk.
20. “I will send an angel ahead of you to protect you as you travel and to bring you to the place which I have prepared.
21. Pay attention to him and obey him. Do not rebel against him, for I have sent him, and he will not pardon such rebellion.
22. But if you obey him and do everything I command, I will fight against all your enemies.
23. My angel will go ahead of you and take you into the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will destroy them.
24. Do not bow down to their gods or worship them, and do not adopt their religious practices. Destroy their gods and break down their sacred stone pillars.
25. If you worship me, the Lord your God, I will bless you with food and water and take away all your illnesses.
26. In your land no woman will have a miscarriage or be without children. I will give you long lives.