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18 “You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with [a]leavened bread; and the fat of My feast is not to be left overnight until morning.

19 “You shall bring the choice first fruits of your ground into the house of the Lord your God.

“You shall not [b]boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Conquest of the Land

20 “Behold, I am going to send an [c]Angel before you to keep and guard you on the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:18 Because leaven is a kind of fungus, it became a symbol of corruption and sin. But in some contexts it had positive connotations (e.g. Lev 23:17; Matt 13:33).
  2. Exodus 23:19 This may have been a pagan practice, perhaps a fertility rite.
  3. Exodus 23:20 “Angel” has been capitalized here to reflect the likelihood that it is God appearing in a visible form (see note Gen 16:7).

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