Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals

Exodus 23

10 m "For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, 11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

12 n "Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.

13 o "Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.

14 p "Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. 15 q You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of r Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. s None shall appear before me empty-handed. 16 You shall keep t the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the u Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. 17 p Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.

18 v "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.

19 "The best of the w firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. x "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

  1. Cross References
    Leviticus 25:3 - 4
    For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 20:9
    Six days you shall labor, and do all your work.
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:9
    Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children -
    Joshua 22:5
    Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
    Joshua 23:7
    That you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them.
    Hosea 2:17
    For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.
    Zechariah 13:2
    And on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 23:17
    Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.
    Exodus 34:23
    Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.
    Deuteronomy 16:16
    Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 12:15
    Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 13:4
    Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out.
  7. Cross References
    Exodus 34:20
    The 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 none shall appear before me empty-handed.
    Deuteronomy 16:16
    Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.
  8. Cross References
    Exodus 34:22
    You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.
    Leviticus 23:9 - 21
    And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying.
  9. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 16:13
    You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress.
    Leviticus 23:34 - 44
    Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord.
  10. Cross References
    Exodus 23:14
    Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.
  11. Cross References
    Exodus 12:8
    They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
    Exodus 34:25
    You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning.
    Leviticus 2:11
    No grain offering that you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey as a food offering to the Lord.
  12. Cross References
    Exodus 34:26
    The best of the firstfruits of your ground you ...
    Leviticus 2:12
    As an offering of firstfruits you may bring the...
    Leviticus 23:10
    Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ...
    Leviticus 23:17
    You shall bring from your dwelling places two l...
    Numbers 18:12 - 13
    All the best of the oil and all the best of the...
    Deuteronomy 26:2
    You shall take some of the first of all the fru...
    Deuteronomy 26:10
    And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit ...
    Nehemiah 10:35
    We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits ...
    Ezekiel 44:30
    And the first of all the firstfruits of all kin...
  13. Cross References
    Exodus 34:26
    The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
    Deuteronomy 14:21
    You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
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