Exodus 23:10–18

The Law of Sabbaths

¹⁰ⁿ“Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce, 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. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your ²olive grove. ^12oSix days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.

¹³“And in all that I have said to you, ^pbe circumspect and ^qmake no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth.

Three Annual Feasts

^14r“Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year: ^15sYou shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; ^tnone shall appear before Me empty); ^16uand the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and ^vthe Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.

^17w“Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord ³God.

^18x“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened ^ybread; nor shall the fat of My ⁴sacrifice remain until morning.