17. Three times in the year all your men are to appear before Adonai Elohim.
18. “Do not offer the blood of My sacrifice with hametz. Nor is the fat of My feast to remain out all night until the morning.
19. Bring the choicest firstfruits of your land into the House of Adonai your God. “Do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
20. “Behold, I am sending an angel before you, to guard you on the way and to bring you into the place that I have prepared.
21. Watch for Him and listen to His voice. Do not rebel against Him because He will not pardon your transgression, for My Name is in Him.
22. But if you listen closely to His voice, and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
23. For My angel will go before you, and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and the Jebusites, and I will cut them off.
24. You are not to bow down to their gods or serve them, or do what they do. Rather, you are to utterly overthrow them, and break their pillars in pieces.
25. You are to serve Adonai your God, and He will bless your food and your water. Moreover I will take sickness away from your midst.
26. None will miscarry nor be barren in your land, and I will fill up the number of your days.
27. “I will send My terror before you and throw all the people to whom you will come into panic, and make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
28. I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites and the Hittites, from before you.
29. I will not drive them out from before you in a single year. Otherwise the land would become desolate, and the animals of the field will multiply against you.