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15 Eat the Feast of Flat Bread every year. For seven days, you must eat bread that you have made without any yeast. I have commanded you to do this. Do it at the right time during the month Abib. It was in that month that you came out of Egypt. Nobody must come to me without an offering.

16 Eat the Feast of Harvest every year. Offer to me the first crops that you bring from your fields.[a]

At the end of each year, eat Feast of Final Harvest. Do that when you have finished bringing in all of your crops from the fields.

17 Three times each year, all your men must come to worship the Almighty Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 23:16 The Israelites ate the Harvest Feast when they picked the first food from their fields.

15 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread;(A) for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv,(B) for in that month you came out of Egypt.

“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.(C)

16 “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest(D) with the firstfruits(E) of the crops you sow in your field.

“Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering(F) at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.(G)

17 “Three times(H) a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord.

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