Exodus 23:16-18

Expanded Bible

¹⁶ “You must celebrate the ·Feast [Festival] of Harvest [^Ccalled Feast of Weeks in 34:22; later called Pentecost]. Offer to God the first things you harvest from the crops you planted in your fields.

“You must celebrate the ·Feast [Festival] of Ingathering [^Clater called Feast of Shelters or Booths; Lev. 23:33–36] in the fall, when you gather all the crops from your fields.

¹⁷ “So three times during every year all your males must come ·to worship [^Lbefore] the Lord God.

¹⁸ “You must not offer ·animal blood [^Lblood of a sacrifice] along with anything ·that has yeast in it [leavened].

“You must not save any of the fat from the sacrifice for the next day.