15 “Be careful that you don’t make an agreement with the people who live in that land. When they worship their gods, they will invite you to join them. Then you will eat their sacrifices.
16 If you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters worship gods, they will lead your sons to do the same thing.
17 “Do not make gods of melted metal.
18 “Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast as I commanded you. Do this during the month I have chosen, the month of Abib, because in that month you came out of Egypt.
19 “The firstborn of every mother belongs to me, including every firstborn male animal that is born in your flocks and herds.
20 You may buy back a donkey by paying for it with a lamb, but if you don’t want to buy back a donkey, you must break its neck. You must buy back all your firstborn sons.“No one is to come before me without a gift.
21 “You must work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest—even during the planting season and the harvest season.