12. For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant’s son and any hired help may refresh themselves.
13. “Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods – do not let them be heard on your lips.
14. “Three times in the year you must make a pilgrim feast to me.
15. You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for at that time you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before me empty-handed.
16. “You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you have gathered in your harvest out of the field.
17. At three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord God.
18. “You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with bread containing yeast; the fat of my festal sacrifice must not remain until morning.
19. The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God. “You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
20. “I am going to send an angel before you to protect you as you journey and to bring you into the place that I have prepared.
21. Take heed because of him, and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him.
22. But if you diligently obey him and do all that I command, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will be an adversary to your adversaries.
23. For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will destroy them completely.
24. “You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones to pieces.
25. You must serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.
26. No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
27. “I will send my terror before you, and I will destroy all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
28. I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.