¹⁰“For six years plant your fields and gather your crops. ¹¹But during the seventh year do not plow your land or use it. Then the poor people who are among you can get food from it. The wild animals can eat what is left over. Do the same thing with your vineyards and your groves of olive trees.

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.

Laws About Celebrating the Main Feasts

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.

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