Exodus 22:28-30

Good News Translation

^28 (A)“Do not speak evil of God,^[a] and do not curse a leader of your people.

²⁹ “Give me the offerings from your grain, your wine, and your olive oil when they are due.

“Give me your first-born sons. ³⁰ Give me the first-born of your cattle and your sheep. Let the first-born male stay with its mother for seven days, and on the eighth day offer it to me.