Exodus 23:10–18

Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals

^10m“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, ¹¹but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

¹²ⁿ“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.

^13o“Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.

^14p“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. ^15qYou shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of ^rAbib, for in it you came out of Egypt. ^sNone shall appear before me empty-handed. ¹⁶You shall keep ^tthe Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the ^uFeast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. ^17pThree times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.

^18v“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.