18. “Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast as I commanded you. Do this during the month I have chosen, the month of Abib. This is because in that month you came out of Egypt.
19. “Every firstborn cow or sheep that is born to each animal belongs to me.
20. You may buy back a donkey by paying for it with a lamb. But if you don’t want to buy back a donkey, you must break its neck. You must buy back all your firstborn sons.“No one is to come before me without a gift.
21. “You must work for six days. But on the seventh day you must rest. You must do this even during the planting season and harvest season.
22. “Celebrate the Feast of Weeks when you gather the first grain of the wheat harvest. And celebrate the Feast of Harvest in the fall.
23. “Three times each year all your men must come before the Master, the Lord, the God of Israel.
24. I will force out nations ahead of you. I will expand the borders of your land. You will go before the Lord your God three times each year. And at that time no one will try to take your land from you.
25. “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me with anything containing yeast. And do not leave any of the sacrifice of the Feast of Passover. It must not be left until the next morning.
26. “Bring the best first crops that you harvest from your ground. Bring those things to the Tent of the Lord your God.“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words. This is because with these words I have made an agreement with you and Israel.”