Exodus 23:15-33

15 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. 1
16 "Celebrate the Harvest Festival when you begin to harvest your crops. 2 "Celebrate the Festival of Shelters in the autumn, when you gather the fruit from your vineyards and orchards.
17 Every year at these three festivals all your men must come to worship me, the Lord your God.
18 "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.
19 "Each year bring to the house of the Lord your God the first grain that you harvest. 3 "Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk
20 "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.
21 Pay attention to him and obey him. Do not rebel against him, for I have sent him, and he will not pardon such rebellion
22 But if you obey him and do everything I command, I will fight against all your enemies.
23 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.
24 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.
25 If you worship me, the Lord your God, I will bless you with food and water and take away all your sicknesses.
26 In your land no woman will have a miscarriage or be without children. I will give you long lives.
27 "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.
28 I will throw your enemies into panic; I will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites as you advance.
29 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.
30 Instead, I will drive them out little by little, until there are enough of you to take possession of the land.
31 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.
32 Do not make any agreement with them or with their gods.
33 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."

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Cross References 3

  • 1. 23.15Exodus 12.14-20;Leviticus 23.6-8;Numbers 28.17-25.
  • 2. 23.16 aLeviticus 23.15-21;Numbers 28.26-31; bLeviticus 23.39-43.
  • 3. 23.19Deuteronomy 26.2;Exodus 34.26;Deuteronomy 14.21.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. I will . . . panic; [or] I will send hornets among your enemies.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.