18. “You must keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you; do this at the appointed time of the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
19. “Every firstborn of the womb belongs to me, even every firstborn of your cattle that is a male, whether ox or sheep.
20. Now the firstling of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons.“No one will appear before me empty-handed.
21. “On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.
22. “You must observe the Feast of Weeks – the firstfruits of the harvest of wheat – and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year.
23. At three times in the year all your men must appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.
24. For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.
25. “You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with yeast; the sacrifice from the feast of Passover must not remain until the following morning.
26. “The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God.You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27. The Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
28. So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
29. Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand – when he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
30. When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to approach him.
31. But Moses called to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and Moses spoke to them.
32. After this all the Israelites approached, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken to him on Mount Sinai.
33. When Moses finished speaking with them, he would put a veil on his face.
34. But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out. Then he would come out and tell the Israelites what he had been commanded.
35. When the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with the Lord.