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The poor may eat what grows there, and the wild animals can have what is left. Do the same with your vineyards and your olive trees.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_23_12"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.12" class="v1_23_12">12</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.23.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “Work six days a week, but do no work on the seventh day, so that your slaves and the foreigners who work for you and even your animals can rest.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_23_13"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.13" class="v1_23_13">13</span>“Listen to everything that I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have said to you. Do not pray to other gods; do not even mention their names.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Three Great Festivals</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="EXO 34:18-26">Exodus 34.18-26</ref>; <ref loc="DEU 16:1-17">Deuteronomy 16.1-17</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v1_23_14"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.14" class="v1_23_14">14</span>“Celebrate three festivals a year to honor me. </span><span class="v1_23_15"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.15" class="v1_23_15">15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.23.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> In the month of Abib, the month in which you left Egypt, celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the way that I commanded you. Do not eat any bread made with yeast during the seven days of this festival. Never come to worship me without bringing an offering.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_23_16"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.16" class="v1_23_16">16</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.23.16!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “Celebrate the Harvest Festival when you begin to harvest your crops.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_23_16">“Celebrate the Festival of Shelters in the autumn, when you gather the fruit from your vineyards and orchards. </span><span class="v1_23_17"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.17" class="v1_23_17">17</span>Every year at these three festivals all your men must come to worship me, the Lord your God.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_23_18"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.18" class="v1_23_18">18</span>“Do not offer bread made with yeast when you sacrifice an animal to me. The fat of animals sacrificed to me during these festivals is not to be left until the following morning.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_23_19"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.19" class="v1_23_19">19</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.23.19!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “Each year bring to the house of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God the first grain that you harvest.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_23_19">“Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk.</span></p><h3 class="s">Promises and Instructions</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_23_20"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.20" class="v1_23_20">20</span>“I will send an angel ahead of you to protect you as you travel and to bring you to the place which I have prepared. </span><span class="v1_23_21"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.21" class="v1_23_21">21</span>Pay attention to him and obey him. Do not rebel against him, for I have sent him, and he will not pardon such rebellion. </span><span class="v1_23_22"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.22" class="v1_23_22">22</span>But if you obey him and do everything I command, I will fight against all your enemies. </span><span class="v1_23_23"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.23" class="v1_23_23">23</span>My angel will go ahead of you and take you into the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will destroy them. </span><span class="v1_23_24"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.24" class="v1_23_24">24</span>Do not bow down to their gods or worship them, and do not adopt their religious practices. Destroy their gods and break down their sacred stone pillars. </span><span class="v1_23_25"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.25" class="v1_23_25">25</span>If you worship me, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God, I will bless you with food and water and take away all your sicknesses. </span><span class="v1_23_26"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.26" class="v1_23_26">26</span>In your land no woman will have a miscarriage or be without children. I will give you long lives.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_23_27"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.27" class="v1_23_27">27</span>“I will make the people who oppose you afraid of me; I will bring confusion among the people against whom you fight, and I will make all your enemies turn and run from you. </span><span class="v1_23_28"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.28" class="v1_23_28">28</span>I will throw your enemies into panic;<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.23.28!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> I will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites as you advance. </span><span class="v1_23_29"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.29" class="v1_23_29">29</span>I will not drive them out within a year's time; if I did, the land would become deserted, and the wild animals would be too many for you. </span><span class="v1_23_30"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.30" class="v1_23_30">30</span>Instead, I will drive them out little by little, until there are enough of you to take possession of the land. </span><span class="v1_23_31"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.31" class="v1_23_31">31</span>I will make the borders of your land extend from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Mediterranean Sea and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give you power over the inhabitants of the land, and you will drive them out as you advance. </span><span class="v1_23_32"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.32" class="v1_23_32">32</span>Do not make any agreement with them or with their gods. </span><span class="v1_23_33"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.23.33" class="v1_23_33">33</span>Do not let those people live in your country; if you do, they will make you sin against me. If you worship their gods, it will be a fatal trap for you.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">23.28: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">I will … panic; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">I will send hornets among your enemies.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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