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20 (A) You can save the life of a first-born donkey[a] by sacrificing a lamb; if you don't, you must break the donkey's neck. You must save every first-born son.

Bring an offering every time you come to worship.

21 (B) Work for six days and rest on the seventh day, even during the seasons for plowing and harvesting. 22 (C) Celebrate the Harvest Festival[b] each spring when you start harvesting your wheat, and celebrate the Festival of Shelters[c] each autumn when you pick your fruit.

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Footnotes

  1. 34.20 donkey: See the note at 13.13.
  2. 34.22 Harvest Festival: See the note at 23.16.
  3. 34.22 Festival of Shelters: See the note at 23.16.

20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck.(A) Redeem all your firstborn sons.(B)

“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.(C)

21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest;(D) even during the plowing season and harvest(E) you must rest.

22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits(F) of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering(G) at the turn of the year.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 34:22 That is, in the autumn