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Exodus 23:16-28 Modern English Version (MEV)

16. You shall observe the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field. You shall observe the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.

17. Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.

18. You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, nor shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until the morning.

19. The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

20. Indeed, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

21. Be on guard before him and obey his voice. Do not provoke him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for My name is in him.

22. But if you diligently obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

23. For My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will completely destroy them.

24. You must not bow down to their gods, or serve them, or do according to their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break down their images in pieces.

25. You shall serve the Lord your God, and He shall bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.

26. No one shall be miscarrying or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

27. I will send My fear before you, and I will throw into panic all the people to whom you shall come. I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

28. I will send hornets before you which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.

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