Deut 16
1
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to YHWH your God; for in the month
of Abib YHWH your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.
2
And you shall sacrifice the passover to YHWH your God, of the flock and the herd,
in the place which YHWH shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
3
You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread
therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt
in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt
all the days of your life.
4
And there shall be no leaven seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither
shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at even, remain all night
until the morning.
5
You may not sacrifice the passover within any of your gates, which YHWH your God gives
you;
6
but at the place which YHWH your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in,
there you shall sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the
season that you came forth out of Egypt.
7
And you shall roast and eat it in the place which YHWH your God shall choose: and
you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents.
8
Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn
assembly to YHWH your God; you shall do no work [therein].
9
Seven weeks shall you number to you: from the time you begin to put the sickle to
the standing grain shall you begin to number seven weeks.
10
And you shall keep the feast of weeks to YHWH your God with a tribute of a freewill-offering
of your hand, which you shall give, according as YHWH your God blesses you:
11
and you shall rejoice before YHWH your God, you, and your son, and your daughter,
and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite that is within your gates,
and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of you,
in the place which YHWH your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
12
And you shall remember that you were a bondman in Egypt: and you shall observe and
do these statutes.
13
You shall keep the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that you have gathered in
from your threshing-floor and from your wine press:
14
and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your
man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless,
and the widow, that are within your gates.
15
Seven days shall you keep a feast to YHWH your God in the place which YHWH shall choose;
because YHWH your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of
your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
16
Three times in a year shall all your males appear before YHWH your 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 YHWH empty:
17
every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of YHWH your God which
he has given you.
18
Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which YHWH your God gives
you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
19
You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take
a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the
righteous.
20
That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the
land which YHWH your God gives you.
21
You shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of YHWH your
God, which you shall make you.
22
Neither shall you set you up a pillar; which YHWH your God hates.