出埃及記23:14-19

23:14 「一年三次，你要向我守節。
23:15 你要守除酵節，照我所吩咐你的，在亞筆月內所定的日期，吃無酵餅七天。誰也不可空手朝見我，因為你是這月出了埃及。
23:16 又要守收割節，所收的是你田間所種、勞碌得來初熟之物。並在年底收藏，要守收藏節。
23:17 一切的男丁要一年三次朝見主耶和華。
23:18 「不可將我祭牲的血和有酵的餅一同獻上；也不可將我節上祭牲的脂油留到早晨。
23:19 「地裡首先初熟之物要送到耶和華─你上帝的殿。「不可用山羊羔母的奶煮山羊羔。」

¹⁴ “Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
¹⁵ “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.
“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
¹⁶ “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field.
“Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
¹⁷ “Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord.
¹⁸ “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast.
“The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.
¹⁹ “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.
“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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     上帝除了要以色列人守無酵節，也就是逾越節。因為他們要出埃及的時候，吃無酵餅七天。然而他們去守這節的時候，不可空手朝見上帝，要帶上禮物獻給上帝，記念上帝拯救脫離埃及人的手，使他們得著自由！

    除此之外還要過「收割節」和「收藏節」，為的是要記念上帝讓他們有土產的收獲。雖然耕種農作物是非常辛苦的事情，但是由於上帝的保守以致於辛苦有代價，可以豐收，當然要感謝上帝，將榮耀歸於上帝！然而榮耀上帝的方式是：「地裡首先初熟之物要送到耶和華─你上帝的殿」！

    在這裡還說到「用山羊羔母的奶煮山羊羔」，這是迦南人的宗教儀式。上帝為了要他們和迦南人有所分別，所以特別吩咐：「不可用山羊羔母的奶煮山羊羔。」