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15 You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you at the appointed time, the month of Abib, because in it you came out from Egypt, and no one will[a] appear before me empty-handed. 16 And you will keep the Feast of Harvest, with the firstfruits of your work, what you sow in the field. And you will keep the Feast of Harvest Gathering when the year goes out, when you gather your work from the field. 17 Three times in the year all your men will appear before the Lord Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:15 Literally “they will not”

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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