"I have taught you all the laws, as the LORD my God told me to do. Obey them in the land that you are about to invade and occupy.

"When that time comes, you must not do as you have been doing. Until now you have all been worshiping as you please,

because you have not yet entered the land that the LORD your God is giving you, where you can live in peace.

"Slaughter the Passover animals at the one place of worship---and nowhere else in the land that the LORD your God will give you. Do it at sunset, the time of day when you left Egypt.

Boil the meat and eat it at the one place of worship; and the next morning return home.

"Count seven weeks from the time that you begin to harvest the grain,

While the Israelites were camping at Gilgal on the plain near Jericho, they observed Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month.

The manna stopped falling then, and the Israelites no longer had any. From that time on they ate food grown in Canaan.

He gave them the lands of other peoples and let them take over their fields,

so that his people would obey his laws and keep all his commands. Praise the LORD!

and so I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of Egypt to a spacious land, one which is rich and fertile and in which the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites now live.

I have decided that I will bring them out of Egypt, where they are being treated cruelly, and will take them to a rich and fertile land---the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.