Discovery BoxExodus 23:15 
Context23:15 You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days 1 you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for at that time 2 you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before 3 me empty-handed.
Exodus 34:20
Context34:20 Now the firstling 4 of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck. 5 You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons.
“No one will appear before me empty-handed. 6
1 tn This is an adverbial accusative of time.
2 tn Heb “in it.”
3 tn The verb is a Niphal imperfect; the nuance of permission works well here – no one is permitted to appear before God empty (Heb “and they will not appear before me empty”).
4 tn Heb “and the one that opens [the womb of] the donkey.”
5 sn See G. Brin, “The Firstling of Unclean Animals,” JQR 68 (1971): 1-15.
6 tn The form is the adverb “empty.”
