14 "Celebrate a festival in my honor three times a year. 23:14 Ex 34:23; Dt 16:1615 Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, 23:15 March–April; called Nisan in the post-exilic period; Neh 2:1; Est 3:7 because you came out of Egypt in that month. No one is to appear before me empty-handed. 23:15 Ex 12:15; 34:2016 Also observe the Festival of Harvest 23:16 The Festival of Harvest is called Festival of Weeks elsewhere; Ex 34:22. In the NT it is called Pentecost; Ac 2:1. with the firstfruits of your produce from what you sow in the field, and observe the Festival of Ingathering 23:16 The Festival of Ingathering is called Festival of Shelters elsewhere; Lv 23:34–36., 23:16 Ex 34:22; Lv 23:39; Dt 16:13 at the end of the year, when you gather your produce 23:16 Lit labors from the field. 17 Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God.
18 "You must not offer the blood of my sacrifices with anything leavened. The fat of my festival offering must not remain until morning. 23:18 Ex 34:25; Dt 16:4
19 "Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God.
"You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. 23:19 Ex 22:29; 26:2,10; Dt 14:21