Catholic Public Domain Version

Exodus 34:12-27 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

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.

23. Three times a year, all your males shall appear in the sight of the Almighty, the Lord God of Israel.

24. For when I will have taken away the nations before your face, and enlarged your borders, no one shall lie in wait against your land when you will go up to appear in the sight of the Lord your God, three times a year.

25. You shall not immolate the blood of my victim over leaven; and there shall not remain, in the morning, any of the victim of the Solemnity of the Passover.

26. The first of the fruits of your land you shall offer in the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother."

27. And the Lord said to Moses, "Write these words to you, through which I have formed a covenant, both with you and with Israel."