DE-16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto
the LORD thy
God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee
forth out of Egypt
by night.
DE-16:2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the
LORD thy God, of
the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose
to place his
name there.
DE-16:3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days
shalt thou eat
unleavened bread therewith, [even] the bread of affliction: for
thou camest
forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest
remember the day
when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of
thy life.
DE-16:4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in
all thy coast
seven days; neither shall there [any thing] of the flesh, which
thou
sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the
morning.
DE-16:5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of
thy gates, which
the LORD thy God giveth thee:
DE-16:6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to
place his
name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the
going down of
the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
DE-16:7 And thou shalt roast and eat [it] in the place which
the LORD thy God
shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto
thy tents.
DE-16:8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the
seventh day
[shall be] a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do
no work
[therein].
DE-16:9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to
number the seven
weeks from [such time as] thou beginnest [to put] the sickle to
the corn.
DE-16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD
thy God with a
tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt
give [unto the
LORD thy God], according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
DE-16:11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou,
and thy son,
and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and
the Levite that
[is] within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and
the widow,
that [are] among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath
chosen to place
his name there.
DE-16:12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in
Egypt: and thou
shalt observe and do these statutes.
DE-16:13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days,
after that
thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
DE-16:14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son,
and thy
daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the
Levite, the
stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that [are] within
thy gates.
DE-16:15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the
LORD thy God in
the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God
shall bless
thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands,
therefore
thou shalt surely rejoice.
DE-16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear
before the LORD thy
God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of
unleavened bread, and
in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they
shall not
appear before the LORD empty:
DE-16:17 Every man [shall give] as he is able, according to the
blessing of
the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
DE-16:18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy
gates, which the
LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall
judge the
people with just judgment.
DE-16:19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect
persons,
neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise,
and pervert
the words of the righteous.
DE-16:20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that
thou mayest
live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
DE-16:21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near
unto the altar
of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
DE-16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up [any] image; which the
LORD thy God
hateth.
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