20. Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.‘No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
21. ‘Six days you shall labour, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the ploughing season and harvest you must rest.
22. ‘Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
23. Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel.
24. I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.
25. ‘Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.
26. ‘Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.‘Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.’
27. Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.’
28. Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant – the Ten Commandments.