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Exodus 23:13-22 New English Translation (NET)

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.

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