17. “Three times in the year all your males are to appear before the Master יהוה.
18. “Do not offer the blood of My slaughtering with leavened bread, and the fat of My offering shall not remain until morning.
19. “Bring the first of the first-fruits of your land into the House of יהוה your Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
20. “See, I am sending a Messenger before you to guard you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
21. “Be on guard before Him and obey His voice. Do not rebel against Him, for He is not going to pardon your transgression, for My Name is in Him.
22. “But if you diligently obey His voice and shall do all that I speak, then I shall be an enemy to your enemies and a distresser to those who distress you.
23. “For My Messenger shall go before you and shall bring you in to the Amorites and the Ḥittites and the Perizzites and the Kena‛anites and the Ḥiwwites and the Yeḇusites, and I shall cut them off.
24. “Do not bow down to their mighty ones, nor serve them, nor do according to their works, but without fail overthrow them and without fail break down their pillars.
25. “And you shall serve יהוה your Elohim, and He shall bless your bread and your water. And I shall remove sickness from your midst.
26. “None shall miscarry or be barren in your land. I shall fill the number of your days.
27. “I shall send My fear before you, and cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
28. “And I shall send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Ḥiwwite, the Kena‛anite, and the Ḥittite from before you.
29. “I shall not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a waste and the beast of the field become too numerous for you.
30. “Little by little I shall drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land.