New American Standard Bible 2020

Exodus 34:18-28

18“You shall keep 1the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For 2seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, 3as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the 4month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

19“5The 6firstborn from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the 7firstborn from 8cattle and sheep. 20 9You 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 10all the firstborn of your sons. 11 12None are to appear before Me empty-handed.

21“You shall work 13six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest. 22And you shall celebrate 14the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. 23 15Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord 16God, the God of Israel. 24For I will 17 18drive 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“19You shall not 20offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, 21nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to 22be left over until morning.

26“You shall bring 23the 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.”

27Then the Lord said to Moses, “24Write 25down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made 26a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28So he was there with the Lord for 27forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And 28 29He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, 30the Ten 31Commandments.

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Notes

1. Exodus 34:18 Ex 12:17; Lev 23:6; Num 28:16f ↩
2. Exodus 34:18 Ex 12:15, 16 ↩
3. Exodus 34:18 Or which ↩
4. Exodus 34:18 Ex 12:2; 13:4 ↩
5. Exodus 34:19 Ex 13:2; 22:29f ↩
6. Exodus 34:19 Lit every firstborn of a womb ↩
7. Exodus 34:19 Lit every firstborn of a womb ↩
8. Exodus 34:19 Or oxen ↩
9. Exodus 34:20 Ex 13:13 ↩
10. Exodus 34:20 Ex 13:15; Num 3:45 ↩
11. Exodus 34:20 Lit They shall not ↩
12. Exodus 34:20 Ex 22:29; 23:15; Deut 16:16 ↩
13. Exodus 34:21 Ex 20:9f; 23:12; 31:15; 35:2; Lev 23:3; Deut 5:13f ↩
14. Exodus 34:22 Ex 23:16; Num 28:26 ↩
15. Exodus 34:23 Ex 23:14-17 ↩
16. Exodus 34:23 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord ↩
17. Exodus 34:24 Or dispossess ↩
18. Exodus 34:24 Ex 33:2; Ps 78:55 ↩
19. Exodus 34:25 Ex 23:18 ↩
20. Exodus 34:25 Lit slaughter ↩
21. Exodus 34:25 Ex 12:10 ↩
22. Exodus 34:25 Lit remain overnight ↩
23. Exodus 34:26 Ex 23:19; Deut 26:2 ↩
24. Exodus 34:27 Ex 17:14; 24:4 ↩
25. Exodus 34:27 Lit for yourself ↩
26. Exodus 34:27 Ex 34:10 ↩
27. Exodus 34:28 Ex 24:18 ↩
28. Exodus 34:28 I.e., the Lord ↩
29. Exodus 34:28 Ex 31:18; 34:1 ↩
30. Exodus 34:28 Deut 4:13; 10:4 ↩
31. Exodus 34:28 Lit Words ↩

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