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13 Be careful to do all the things that I have said to you. Do not mention the name of other gods. Do not let their names come out of your mouth.

Laws About Festivals

14 Three times a year you shall observe pilgrimage festivals for me:

15 You shall observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread.[a] For seven days you shall eat bread without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib (for during that month you came out from Egypt). No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:15 Also called Passover, referring to the events of its first day. This festival took place in early spring at the beginning of the grain harvest.

13 “Be careful(A) to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods;(B) do not let them be heard on your lips.(C)

The Three Annual Festivals

14 “Three times(D) a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.

15 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread;(E) for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv,(F) for in that month you came out of Egypt.

“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.(G)

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