Exodus 23:10 says, And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:  Then verse eleven adds, But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.  The owners of the land were to plant and harvest the land for six years, and then the seventh year the land and the crops were to be harvested by the poor and what they didn't use was to be left for the animals.  God has always been concerned for the poor, and He has always expected His people to help them out.  We today might say that the owner has the right to everything that he can produce every year and has no obligation to the poor, but this is not what God says.  Verse twelve says, Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.  God said that the seventh day was to be a day of rest for all people and their working animals.  We today choose the Lord's Day, Sunday, and yet for too many people it is not even a day of rest, much less a day of worship.  God said this was to be a day to be refreshed.  We still need that time to rest and worship God.  Verse thirteen declares, And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.  The people of Israel were told to be circumspect, which means wary and unwilling to take risks, in all things, and they were not to even mention other gods.  As followers of Christ, this still applies to us today.  If we follow astrological signs and horoscopes, for example, we are following another god, even if we say that there is no harm in it.  Verse fourteen proclaims, Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.  God is going to tell the people some particular days that they should worship Him, and how they should worship Him.  Though we should worship God daily, we do know that He expects us to set aside one day exclusively for worshipping Him.  I believe that God should also determine how we worship Him, and that it should not be determined simply by what makes us feel good or by what everyone else is doing.  Verse fifteen states,Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)  God said they were to keep the feast of unleavened bread by eating unleavened bread for one week each year, and that none should go hungry.  This was to be a reminder of when God delivered them from Egypt.  When we think of a feast, we usually think of delicious food and lots of it, but this was to be a feast of remembrance of what God had done for them.  Verse sixteen adds, And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.  They were also to observe the feast of the harvest and the feast of the ingathering.  This was to dedicate what they had to God.  We should always give thanks to God, and we celebrate Thanksgiving every year, but it has been swallowed up by Christmas, which itself has lost much of its meaning in the world today.  Thanksgiving has become a day of overeating and waiting for the day after sales to begin, and Christmas has become a day of commerce more than a day for the celebration of the birth of Christ   Verse seventeen declares, Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.  All males were also to appear before God three times a year.  Verse eighteen adds, Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.  Sacrifices were not to be offered with leavened bread, and nothing was to be left until morning.  When we give our self to the Lord, we should not attempt to keep anything anything back.  Verse nineteen concludes,The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.  The people of Israel were told to bring their first fruits to God, and I believe that we today must give to God first before we worry about what to do with the rest of what He has blessed us with.