Exodus 23:10–18

Sabbatical Year and Sabbath

¹⁰“Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield,^{* 11}but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard and with your olive orchard.

¹²“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest so that your ox and your donkey may have relief and your homeborn slave and the resident alien may be refreshed.^{* 13}Be attentive to all that I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.

The Annual Festivals

¹⁴“Three times in the year you shall hold a festival for me. ¹⁵You shall observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread; as I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt.

“No one shall appear before me empty-handed.^*

¹⁶“You shall observe the Festival of Harvest, of the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall observe the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.^{* 17}Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.

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