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Exodus 23:10-25 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

10. For six years you may sow your land and gather in its produce.

11. But the seventh year you shall let the land lie untilled and fallow, that the poor of your people may eat of it and their leftovers the wild animals may eat. So also shall you do in regard to your vineyard and your olive grove.

12. For six days you may do your work, but on the seventh day you must rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and that the son of your maidservant and the resident alien may be refreshed.

13. Give heed to all that I have told you.You shall not mention the name of any other god; it shall not be heard from your lips.

14. Three times a year you shall celebrate a pilgrim feast to me.

15. You shall keep the feast of Unleavened Bread. As I have commanded you, you must eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for it was then that you came out of Egypt. No one shall appear before me empty-handed.

16. You shall also keep the feast of the grain harvest with the first fruits of the crop that you sow in the field; and finally, the feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you collect your produce from the fields.

17. Three times a year shall all your men appear before the Lord God.

18. You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened; nor shall the fat of my feast be kept overnight till the next day.

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

20. See, I am sending an angel before you, to guard you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared.

21. Be attentive to him and obey him. Do not rebel against him, for he will not forgive your sin. My authority is within him.

22. If you obey him and carry out all I tell you, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

23. My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites; and I will wipe them out.

24. Therefore, you shall not bow down to their gods and serve them, nor shall you act as they do; rather, you must demolish them and smash their sacred stones.

25. You shall serve the Lord, your God; then he will bless your food and drink, and I will remove sickness from your midst;

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