9285. Verses 14-19. Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year. The feast of unleavened things shalt thou keep; seven days thou shalt eat unleavened things, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed of the month Abib; because in it thou camest forth out of Egypt; and My faces shall not be seen empty: and the feast of the harvest of the first fruits of thy works, which thou sowedst in the field; and the feast of ingathering, in the going out of the year, when thou gatherest in thy works out of the field. Three times in the year shall every male of thine appear before the faces of the Lord Jehovih. Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of My sacrifice upon what is fermented; and the fat of My feast shall not remain overnight until the morning. The first of the firstfruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk. “Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year,” signifies the persistent worship of the Lord and thanksgiving on account of liberation from damnation; “the feast of unleavened things shalt thou keep,” signifies worship and thanksgiving on account of purification from falsities; “seven days,” signifies a holy state then; “thou shalt eat unleavened things,” signifies the appropriation of good purified from falsities; “as I commanded thee,” signifies in accordance with the laws of order; “at the time appointed of the month Abib,” signifies from the beginning of a new state; “because in it thou camest forth out of Egypt,” signifies liberation from infestation by falsities; “and My faces shall not be seen empty,” signifies the reception of good by virtue of mercy, and thanksgiving; “and the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy works, which thou sowedst in the field,” signifies the worship of the Lord and thanksgiving on account of the implanting of truth in good; “and the feast of ingathering, in the going out of the year, when thou gatherest in thy works out of the field,” signifies worship from a grateful mind on account of the implantation of good therefrom, thus on account of regeneration and complete liberation from damnation; “three times in the year shall every male of thine appear before the faces of the Lord Jehovih,” signifies the continual appearance and presence of the Lord, therefore also His appearance and presence in the truths of faith; “thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of My sacrifice upon what is fermented,” signifies that the worship of the Lord from the truths of the church must not be commingled with falsities from evil; “and the fat of My feast shall not remain overnight until the morning,” signifies the good of worship, not from man’s own, but from the Lord, always new; “the first of the firstfruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God,” signifies that all truths of good and goods of truth are holy, because they are from the Lord alone; “thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk,” signifies that the good of innocence of the after state must not be conjoined with the truth of innocence of the former state.