14 Celebrate three festivals each year in my honor.
15 Ex 12.14-20;Lv 23.6-8;Nu 28.17-25.Celebrate the Festival of Thin Bread by eating bread made without yeast, just as I have commanded.23.15 as I have commanded: See 12.14-20. Do this at the proper time during the month of Abib,23.15 Abib: See the note at 12.2. because it is the month when you left Egypt. And make certain that everyone brings the proper offerings.
16 Lv 23.15-21;Nu 28.26-31;Lv 23.39-43.Celebrate the Harvest Festival23.16 Harvest Festival: Traditionally called the "Festival of Weeks" and known in New Testament times as "Pentecost." each spring when you start harvesting your wheat, and celebrate the Festival of Shelters23.16 Festival of Shelters: The Hebrew text has "Festival of Ingathering" (so also in 34.22), which was the final harvesting of crops and fruits before the autumn rains began. But the usual name was "Festival of Shelters." each autumn when you pick your fruit.
17 Your men must come to these three festivals each year to worship me.
18 Do not offer bread made with yeast when you sacrifice an animal to me. And make sure that the fat of the animal is burned that same day.
19 Dt 26.2;Ex 34.26;Dt 14.21.Each year bring the best part of your first harvest to the place of worship.
Don’t boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
A Promise and a Warning
The Lord said: