Catholic Public Domain Version

Exodus 34:11-22 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

11. Observe everything that I command you this day. I myself will drive out before your face the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

12. Beware that you do not ever join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be your ruin.

13. But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their sacred groves.

14. Do not be willing to worship any strange god. The jealous Lord is his name. God is a rival.

15. Do not enter into a pact with the men of those regions, lest, when they will have fornicated with their gods and worshiped their idols, someone might call upon you to eat from what was immolated.

16. Neither shall you take a wife for your son from their daughters, lest, after they themselves have fornicated, they may cause your sons also to fornicate with their gods.

17. You shall not make for yourselves any molten gods.

18. You shall keep the solemnity of unleavened bread. For seven days, you shall eat unleavened bread, just as I instructed you, in the time of the month of what is new. For in the month of springtime you departed from Egypt.

19. All of the male kind, which open the womb, shall be mine: from all the animals, as much of oxen as of sheep, it shall be mine.

20. The firstborn of a donkey, you shall redeem with a sheep. But if you will not give a price for it, it shall be slain. The firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. You shall not appear empty in my sight.

21. For six days you shall work. On the seventh day you shall cease to cultivate and to harvest.

22. You shall observe the Solemnity of Weeks with the first-fruits of the grain from the harvest of your wheat, and a Solemnity when the time of the year returns and everything is stored away.