Exodus 23:10–19

The Law of Sabbaths

10 n“Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce, 11 but 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. 12 oSix 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

14 r“Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year: 15 sYou 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); 16 uand 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.

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

18 x“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened ybread; nor shall the fat of My 4sacrifice remain until morning. 19 zThe first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. aYou shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.