12. “Work for six days and rest the seventh so your ox and donkey may rest and your servant and migrant workers may have time to get their needed rest.
13. “Listen carefully to everything I tell you. Don’t pay attention to other gods—don’t so much as mention their names.
14. “Three times a year you are to hold a festival for me.
15. “Hold the spring Festival of Unraised Bread when you eat unraised bread for seven days at the time set for the month of Abib, as I commanded you. That was the month you came out of Egypt. No one should show up before me empty-handed.
16. “Hold the summer Festival of Harvest when you bring in the firstfruits of all your work in the fields.“Hold the autumn Festival of Ingathering at the end of the season when you bring in the year’s crops.
17. “Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Master, God.
18. “Don’t offer the blood of a sacrifice to me with anything that has yeast in it.“Don’t leave the fat from my festival offering out overnight.
19. “Bring the choice first produce of the year to the house of your God.“Don’t boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
20-24. “Now get yourselves ready. I’m sending my Angel ahead of you to guard you in your travels, to lead you to the place that I’ve prepared. Pay close attention to him. Obey him. Don’t go against him. He won’t put up with your rebellions because he’s acting on my authority. But if you obey him and do everything I tell you, I’ll be an enemy to your enemies, I’ll fight those who fight you. When my Angel goes ahead of you and leads you to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, I’ll clear the country of them. So don’t worship or serve their gods; don’t do anything they do because I’m going to wipe them right off the face of the Earth and smash their sacred phallic pillars to bits.
25-26. “But you—you serve your God and he’ll bless your food and your water. I’ll get rid of the sickness among you; there won’t be any miscarriages nor barren women in your land. I’ll make sure you live full and complete lives.