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Version 0.35.76, 26 August 2024
Deuteronomy Chapter 16
1Keep the month of Abib, and celebrate the Lord your God's Passover, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
2And you shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, sheep and oxen, in the place where the Lord chooses to seat his name.
3And you shall not eat anything leavened with it. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, bread of affliction, for you went out of the land of Egypt in haste, so that you remember the day of your exodus from the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
4And no leaven will be seen by you in all your territory for seven days, and none of the flesh which you sacrifice in the evening on the first day will remain until morning.
5You shall not sacrifice the Passover in any arbitrary one of your gates which the Lord your God is giving you,
6but in the place where the Lord your God chooses to seat his name. That is where you will sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, in the season of your exodus from Egypt.
7And you will boil it and eat it in the place which the Lord your God chooses, and in the morning you will wend your way and go to your tents.
8For six days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there will be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God. You will not carry out any work.
9You will count out seven weeks. From the start of the sickle going in the corn, you will start counting seven weeks.
10And you will celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the Lord your God, with a quantity of freewill-offering from your resources which you may give, according as the Lord your God blesses you.
11And you will rejoice before the Lord your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the orphan, and the widow, who are in your midst, in the place where the Lord your God chooses to seat his name.
12And you will remember that you were a slave in Egypt, so you will keep and perform these statutes.
13You will celebrate your Festival of Tabernacles for seven days when you gather in from your threshing floor and your wine vat.
14And you will rejoice in your festival, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your gates.
15For seven days you will celebrate the festival to the Lord your God, in the place which the Lord chooses, for the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you will be joyful in all respects.
16Three times per year all your male population will see the face of the Lord your God in the place which he chooses at the Festival of Unleavened Bread and at the Festival of Weeks and at the Festival of Tabernacles. And they shall not see the presence of the Lord empty-handed.
17Each man will come with a gift according to his resources, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you.
18You will appoint yourselves judges and officials at all your gates, which the Lord your God is giving you by your tribes, and they will judge the people with righteous judgment.
19You shall not pervert judgment, you shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the words of the righteous.
20You shall pursue justice and nothing but justice, so that you may live and possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
21You shall not plant phallic parks of any tree for yourself alongside the altar of the Lord your God, which you might make for yourself,
22and you shall not set up any idolatrous statue for yourself, which the Lord your God hates.