12 “Do your work(A) for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the foreign resident may be refreshed.

13 “Pay strict attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.[a](B)

14 “Celebrate a festival in My honor three times a year.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:13 Lit mouth

12 “Six days do your work,(A) but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.(B)

13 “Be careful(C) to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods;(D) do not let them be heard on your lips.(E)

The Three Annual Festivals

14 “Three times(F) a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.

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