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The Three Annual Festivals
"There are three annual religious pilgrimages you must make.
"The first is the Pilgrimage of Unleavened Bread, when for seven days you are not to eat bread with yeast, just as I commanded you before. This celebration is to be an annual event at the regular time in March, the month you left Egypt; everyone must bring me a sacrifice at that time. Then there is the Harvest Pilgrimage, when you must bring to me the first of your crops. And, finally, the Pilgrimage of Ingathering at the end of the harvest season. At these three times each year, every man in Israel shall appear before the Lord God.
"No sacrifical blood shall be offered with leavened bread; no sacrifical fat shall be left unoffered until the next morning.
"As you reap each of your crops, bring me the choicest sample of the first day's harvest; it shall be offered to the Lord your God.
"Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
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TEXT SOURCE:
(Exodus 23:14-19) The Children's Living Bible, ©1970 Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton Illinois 60187
TITLE SOURCE: The New Student Bible, ©1992 Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids Michigan
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