Exodus 23:16-18
EasyEnglish Bible
16 Eat the Feast of Harvest every year. Offer to me the first crops that you bring from your fields.[a]
At the end of each year, eat Feast of Final Harvest. Do that when you have finished bringing in all of your crops from the fields.
17 Three times each year, all your men must come to worship the Almighty Lord.
18 When you kill an animal to offer it to me as a sacrifice, do not offer it with bread that has yeast in it. Be sure to burn all the fat of the animal on the same day. Do not keep any of it until the next morning.
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- 23:16 The Israelites ate the Harvest Feast when they picked the first food from their fields.
Exodus 23:16-18
New International Version
16 “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest(A) with the firstfruits(B) of the crops you sow in your field.
“Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering(C) at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.(D)
17 “Three times(E) a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord.
18 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast.(F)
“The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.(G)
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