16. Celebrate the Harvest Festival each spring when you start harvesting your wheat, and celebrate the 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 burnt that same day.
19. 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.
20. I am sending an angel to protect you and to lead you into the land I have ready for you.
21. Carefully obey everything the angel says, because I am giving him complete authority, and he won't tolerate rebellion.
22. If you faithfully obey him, I will be a fierce enemy of your enemies.
23. My angel will lead you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.
24. Don't worship their gods or follow their customs. Instead, destroy their idols and shatter their stone images.
25. Worship only me, the Lord your God! I will bless you with plenty of food and water and keep you strong.
26. Your women will give birth to healthy children, and everyone will live a long life.
27. I will terrify those nations and make your enemies so confused that they will run from you.
28. I will make the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites panic as you approach.
29. But I won't do all this in the first year, because the land would become poor, and wild animals would be everywhere.
30. Instead, I will force out your enemies little by little and give your nation time to grow strong enough to take over the land.
31. I will see that your borders reach from the Red Sea to the River Euphrates and from the Mediterranean Sea to the desert. I will let you defeat the people who live there, and you will force them out of the land.
32. But you must not make any agreements with them or with their gods.