20 The (A)firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And (B)none shall appear before me empty-handed.

21 (C)“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. 22 (D)You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.

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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