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.
24. For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory. No one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the Lord your God.
25. “Do not present the blood for My sacrifice with anything leavened. The sacrifice of the Passover Festival must not remain until morning.
26. “Bring the best firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God.“You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27. The Lord also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for I have made a covenant with you and with Israel based on these words.”
28. Moses was there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.
29. As Moses descended from Mount Sinai — with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands as he descended the mountain — he did not realize that the skin of his face shone as a result of his speaking with the Lord.
30. When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone! They were afraid to come near him.