New International Version

Exodus 23:16-21 New International Version (NIV)

16. “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. “Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.

17. “Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord.

18. “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast. “The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.

19. “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God. “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

20. “See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.

21. Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him.