Exodus 23:10-17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Religious Laws. 10 (A)For six years you may sow your land and gather in its produce. 11 But the seventh year you shall let the land lie untilled and fallow, that the poor of your people may eat of it and their leftovers the wild animals may eat. So also shall you do in regard to your vineyard and your olive grove.
12 For six days you may do your work, but on the seventh day you must rest,(B) that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and that the son of your maidservant and the resident alien may be refreshed. 13 Give heed to all that I have told you.
You shall not mention the name of any other god; it shall not be heard from your lips.
14 (C)Three times a year you shall celebrate a pilgrim feast to me.[a] 15 You shall keep the feast of Unleavened Bread. As I have commanded you, you must eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for it was then that you came out of Egypt. No one shall appear before me[b] empty-handed. 16 You shall also keep the feast of the grain harvest with the first fruits of the crop that you sow in the field; and finally, the feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you collect your produce from the fields. 17 Three times a year shall all your men appear before the Lord God.
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Exodus 23:10-17
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Sabbath Laws
10 “For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, 11 but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused.(A) Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
12 “Six days do your work,(B) but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.(C)
13 “Be careful(D) to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods;(E) do not let them be heard on your lips.(F)
The Three Annual Festivals
14 “Three times(G) a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
15 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread;(H) for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv,(I) for in that month you came out of Egypt.
“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.(J)
16 “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest(K) with the firstfruits(L) of the crops you sow in your field.
“Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering(M) at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.(N)
17 “Three times(O) a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord.
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