Today is the sixth day of February.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I'm Brian. It is, it's great to be here.

It's great to, it's great to be around the global campfire together.

It's so welcome and it's cozy. We're here together. We're taking the next step forward.

In the Old Testament, we're in the book of Exodus.

And we are beginning to understand and learn of the things that will govern this new people

that has been brought out of slavery into the wilderness and chosen by God to be a nation of priests to reveal him to the world.

We are beginning to understand the...

the statutes, the customs, the rituals, the laws of things that will knit them

together as a society and so we pick up the story

Exodus chapter 23 verse 14 through 25 verse 40 today day. Three times a year you shall observe pilgrimage festivals for me. You shall observe

the festival of unleavened bread for seven days you

shall eat bread without yeast as I commanded you at the appointed time in the month

of Abib for during that month you came out from Egypt.

No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

Next, observe the festival of reaping by presenting the first ripe produce of your labors, which you sow in the field.

Finally, observe the festival of inn gathering at the end of the year when you pick the fruits of your labors from the fields,

three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.

You shall not offer any bread made with yeast together with the blood of my sacrifices.

None of the fat from my festivals shall remain until morning.

The very first produce from your soil you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.

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