New American Standard Bible 2020

Exodus 34:12-26

12 1Be careful that you do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst. 13 2But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their memorial stones, and cut down their 3 4Asherim 14--for 5you shall not worship any other god, because the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God-- 15otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they would prostitute themselves with their gods and 6sacrifice to their gods, and someone 7might invite you 8to eat of his sacrifice, 16and 9you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons also to prostitute themselves with their gods. 17 10You shall not make for yourself any gods cast in metal.

18“You shall keep 11the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For 12seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, 13as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the 14month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

19“15The 16firstborn from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the 17firstborn from 18cattle and sheep. 20 19You shall redeem with a lamb the firstborn from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem 20all the firstborn of your sons. 21 22None are to appear before Me empty-handed.

21“You shall work 23six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest. 22And you shall celebrate 24the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. 23 25Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord 26God, the God of Israel. 24For I will 27 28drive out nations from you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the Lord your God.

25“29You shall not 30offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, 31nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to 32be left over until morning.

26“You shall bring 33the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God.

“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

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Notes

1. Exodus 34:12 Ex 23:32, 33 ↩
2. Exodus 34:13 Ex 23:24; Deut 12:3 ↩
3. Exodus 34:13 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah) ↩
4. Exodus 34:13 Deut 16:21; Judg 6:25, 26; 2 Kin 18:4; 2 Chr 34:3f ↩
5. Exodus 34:14 Ex 20:3, 5; Deut 4:24 ↩
6. Exodus 34:15 Ex 22:20; 32:8 ↩
7. Exodus 34:15 Num 25:1, 2; Deut 32:37, 38 ↩
8. Exodus 34:15 Lit and you eat ↩
9. Exodus 34:16 Deut 7:3; Josh 23:12, 13; 1 Kin 11:1-4 ↩
10. Exodus 34:17 Ex 20:4, 23; Lev 19:4; Deut 5:8 ↩
11. Exodus 34:18 Ex 12:17; Lev 23:6; Num 28:16f ↩
12. Exodus 34:18 Ex 12:15, 16 ↩
13. Exodus 34:18 Or which ↩
14. Exodus 34:18 Ex 12:2; 13:4 ↩
15. Exodus 34:19 Ex 13:2; 22:29f ↩
16. Exodus 34:19 Lit every firstborn of a womb ↩
17. Exodus 34:19 Lit every firstborn of a womb ↩
18. Exodus 34:19 Or oxen ↩
19. Exodus 34:20 Ex 13:13 ↩
20. Exodus 34:20 Ex 13:15; Num 3:45 ↩
21. Exodus 34:20 Lit They shall not ↩
22. Exodus 34:20 Ex 22:29; 23:15; Deut 16:16 ↩
23. Exodus 34:21 Ex 20:9f; 23:12; 31:15; 35:2; Lev 23:3; Deut 5:13f ↩
24. Exodus 34:22 Ex 23:16; Num 28:26 ↩
25. Exodus 34:23 Ex 23:14-17 ↩
26. Exodus 34:23 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord ↩
27. Exodus 34:24 Or dispossess ↩
28. Exodus 34:24 Ex 33:2; Ps 78:55 ↩
29. Exodus 34:25 Ex 23:18 ↩
30. Exodus 34:25 Lit slaughter ↩
31. Exodus 34:25 Ex 12:10 ↩
32. Exodus 34:25 Lit remain overnight ↩
33. Exodus 34:26 Ex 23:19; Deut 26:2 ↩

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Commentaries on Exodus 34