Deuteronomy
Chapter Sixteen
1 ¶ "Observe
the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month
of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
2 "Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, from
the flock and the herd, in the place where the LORD chooses to put His name.
3 "You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land
of Egypt in haste), that you may remember the day in which you came out of the
land of Egypt all the days of your life.
4 "And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory for seven
days, nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight
remain overnight until morning.
5 "You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the
LORD your God gives you;
6 "but at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide,
there you shall sacrifice the Passover at twilight, at the going down of the
sun, at the time you came out of Egypt.
7 "And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God
chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.
8 "Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there
shall be a sacred assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work on it.
9 "You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks
from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.
10 "Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the
tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the LORD
your God blesses you.
11 "You shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your
daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within
your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you,
at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.
12 "And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall
be careful to observe these statutes.
13 "You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have
gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.
14 "And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter,
your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the
fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates.
15 "Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the LORD your God in the
place which the LORD chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all
your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.
16 "Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your
God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the
Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and they shall not appear before
the LORD empty-handed.
17 "Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the
LORD your God which He has given you.
18 ¶ "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which
the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge
the people with just judgment.
19 "You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take
a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the
righteous.
20 "You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may live and inherit
the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
21 "You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a wooden image, near
the altar which you build for yourself to the LORD your God.
22 "You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
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