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Exodus 34:14-23 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

14. You are never to bow down to another god because Yahweh, being jealous by nature, is a jealous God.

15. “Do not make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land, or else when they prostitute themselves with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.

16. Then you will take some of their daughters as brides for your sons. Their daughters will prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.

17. “Do not make cast images of gods for yourselves.

18. “Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. You are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib as I commanded you. For you came out of Egypt in the month of Abib.

19. “The firstborn male from every womb belongs to Me, including all your male livestock, the firstborn of cattle or sheep.

20. You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a sheep, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one is to appear before Me empty-handed.

21. “You are to labor six days but you must rest on the seventh day; you must even rest during plowing and harvesting times.

22. “Observe the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the agricultural year.

23. Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

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