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Exodus 23:12-21 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

12. "Do all of your work in six days. But do not do any work on the seventh day. Then your oxen and donkeys can rest. The slaves who are born in your house can be renewed. And so can the outsiders.

13. "Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not use the names of other gods. Do not even let them be heard on your lips.

14. "Three times a year you must celebrate a feast in my honor.

15. "Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Eat bread that is made without yeast for seven days, just as I commanded you. Do it at the appointed time in the month of Abib. You came out of Egypt in that month. "You must not come to worship me with your hands empty.

16. "Celebrate the Feast of Weeks. Bring the first share of your crops from your field. "Celebrate the Feast of Booths. Hold it in the fall when you gather in your crops from the field.

17. "Three times a year all of your men must come to worship me. I am your Lord and King.

18. "Do not include anything that is made with yeast when you offer me the blood of a sacrifice. "Suppose the fat from sacrifices is left over from my feasts. Then do not keep it until morning.

19. "Bring the best of the first share of your crops to my house. I am the Lord your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

20. "I am sending an angel ahead of you. He will guard you along the way. He will bring you to the place I have prepared.

21. Pay attention to him. Listen to what he says. Do not refuse to obey him. He will not forgive you if you turn against him. My very Name is in him.

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