Daily Bread

¹⁰ Then the Lord said: “I am making a covenant^(A) with you. Before all your people I will do wonders^(B) never before done in any nation in all the world.^(C) The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord, will do for you. ¹¹ Obey what I command^(D) you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.^{(E) 12} Be careful not to make a treaty^(F) with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare^(G) among you. ¹³ Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.^{[a](H) 14} Do not worship any other god,^(I) for the Lord, whose name^(J) is Jealous, is a jealous God.^(K)

¹⁵ “Be careful not to make a treaty^(L) with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute^(M) themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.^{(N) 16} And when you choose some of their daughters as wives^(O) for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods,^(P) they will lead your sons to do the same.

¹⁷ “Do not make any idols.^(Q)

¹⁸ “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread.^(R) For seven days eat bread made without yeast,^(S) as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv,^(T) for in that month you came out of Egypt.

¹⁹ “The first offspring^(U) of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. ²⁰ Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck.^(V) Redeem all your firstborn sons.^(W)

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

²¹ “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest;^(Y) even during the plowing season and harvest^(Z) you must rest.

²² “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits^(AA) of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering^(AB) at the turn of the year.^{[b] 23} Three times^(AC) a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. ²⁴ I will drive out nations^(AD) before you and enlarge your territory,^(AE) and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.

²⁵ “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast,^(AF) and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.^(AG)

²⁶ “Bring the best of the firstfruits^(AH) of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”^(AI)

²⁷ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write^(AJ) down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant^(AK) with you and with Israel.” ²⁸ Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights^(AL) without eating bread or drinking water.^(AM) And he wrote on the tablets^(AN) the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.^(AO)