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20 The firstborn colt of a donkey may be redeemed by giving a lamb in its place. If you decide not to redeem it, then its neck must be broken. But your sons must all be redeemed. And no one shall appear before me without a gift.

21 “Even during plowing and harvest times, work only six days, and rest on the seventh.

22 “And you must remember to celebrate these three annual religious festivals: the Festival of Weeks, the Festival of the First Wheat, and the Harvest Festival.

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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