New Century Version

Exodus 34:20-26 New Century Version (NCV)

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—even during the planting season and the harvest season.

22. “Celebrate the Feast of Weeks when you gather the first grain of the wheat harvest. And celebrate the Feast of Shelters in the fall.

23. “Three times each year all your males must come before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

24. I will force out nations ahead of you and 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 until the next morning.

26. “Bring the best first crops that you harvest from your ground to the Tent of the Lord your God.“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”