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Exodus 23:13-29 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

13. “ ‘And you will be attentive to all that I have said to you, and you will not profess the name of other gods; it will not be heard in your mouth.

14. “ ‘Three times in the year you will hold a festival for me.

15. You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you at the appointed time, the month of Abib, because in it you came out from Egypt, and no one will appear before me empty-handed.

16. And you will keep the Feast of Harvest, with the firstfruits of your work, what you sow in the field. And you will keep the Feast of Harvest Gathering when the year goes out, when you gather your work from the field.

17. Three times in the year all your men will appear before the Lord Yahweh.

18. “ ‘You will not sacrifice the blood of my sacrifice together with food with yeast, and you will not leave the fat of my feast overnight until morning.

19. “ ‘The best of the firstfruits of your land you will bring to the house of Yahweh your God. “ ‘You will not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

20. “ ‘Look, I am about to send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.

21. Be attentive to him and listen to his voice; do not rebel against him, because he will not forgive your transgression, for my name is in him.

22. But if you listen attentively to his voice and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

23. When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, I will wipe them out.

24. “ ‘You will not bow to their gods, and you will not serve them, and you will not act according to their actions, because you will utterly demolish them, and you will utterly break their stone pillars.

25. And you will serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from among you.

26. There will be no one suffering miscarriage or infertile in your land. I will make full the number of your days.

27. “ ‘I will release my terror before you, and I will throw into confusion all the people against whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their back to you.

28. And I will send the hornet before you, and it will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.

29. I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a desolation and the wild animals multiply against you.

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