¹⁰“For six years you may plant crops in your fields and harvest them, ¹¹but in the seventh year you must leave the land unplowed and unused. In that way the poor among your people will have food to eat, and wild animals may eat what the poor people leave. You must do the same with your vineyards and olive groves.

¹²“For six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you must not work. Then your ox and donkey can rest. The slaves born in your household and foreigners will also be refreshed.

¹³“Be careful ⸤to do⸥ everything I told you.

“Never mention the names of other gods or let them be heard on your lips.

Laws for Three Festivals

¹⁴“Three times a year you must celebrate a pilgrimage festival in my honor.

¹⁵“Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread: For seven days you must eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, because that was when you left Egypt. No one may come into my presence without an offering.

¹⁶“Celebrate the Festival of the Harvest with the first produce harvested from whatever you plant in your fields.

“Celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvest at the end of the year when you harvest your crops from the fields.

¹⁷“These are the three times each year that all your men must come into the presence of the Master, the Lord.

¹⁸“Never offer the blood of a sacrifice to me at the same time you offer anything containing yeast. The fat sacrificed at my festivals should never be left over in the morning.

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