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20 But the firstborn of an ass thou shalt ransom with a lamb, and if thou ransom him not, then shalt thou cut off his head. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt ransom, and none shall appear before me empty.

21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt cease; in ploughing time and in harvest thou shalt cease.

22 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of the reaping of the wheat, 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