New International Reader's Version

Exodus 23:16-23 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

16. "Celebrate the Feast of Weeks. Bring the first share of your crops from your field. "Celebrate the Feast of Booths. Hold it in the fall when you gather in your crops from the field.

17. "Three times a year all of your men must come to worship me. I am your Lord and King.

18. "Do not include anything that is made with yeast when you offer me the blood of a sacrifice. "Suppose the fat from sacrifices is left over from my feasts. Then do not keep it until morning.

19. "Bring the best of the first share of your crops to my house. I am the Lord your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

20. "I am sending an angel ahead of you. He will guard you along the way. He will bring you to the place I have prepared.

21. Pay attention to him. Listen to what he says. Do not refuse to obey him. He will not forgive you if you turn against him. My very Name is in him.

22. Listen carefully to what he says. Do everything I say. Then I will be an enemy to your enemies. I will fight against those who fight against you.

23. "My angel will go ahead of you. He will bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites. I will wipe them out.