16. Then your sons will end up marrying their daughters. When their daughters chase after their gods as though they were prostitutes, they’ll lead your sons to do the same thing.
17. “Never make an idol.
18. “You must celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you must eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, because in that month you came out of Egypt.
19. “Every first male offspring is mine, even the firstborn males of all your livestock, whether cattle, sheep, or goats.
20. It will cost you a sheep or a goat to buy back the firstborn donkey. If you don’t buy it back, then you must break the donkey’s neck. You must buy back every firstborn of your sons.“No one may come into my presence without an offering.
21. “You may work six days, but on the seventh day you must not work. Even during the time of plowing or harvesting you must not work ⌊on this day⌋.
22. “You must celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the first grain from your wheat harvest, and the Festival of the Final Harvest at the end of the season.
23. “Three times a year all your men must come into the presence of the Master, the Lord God of Israel.
24. I will force nations out of your way and will expand ⌊your country’s⌋ borders. No one will want to take away your land while you’re gone three times a year to the Lord’s festivals.
25. “Never offer the blood of a sacrifice to me at the same time you offer anything containing yeast. No part of the sacrifice at the Passover Festival should be left over in the morning.
26. “You must bring the first and best of the produce harvested from your soil to the house of the Lord your God.“Never cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”