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22 verses

Deuteronomy Chapter 16

¹Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to ForeverOne your God; for in the month of Abib ForeverOne your God brought you here out of Egypt by night.

²You shall sacrifice the Passover to ForeverOne your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which ForeverOne shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

³You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came here out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came here out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

⁴No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.

⁵You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which ForeverOne your God gives you; ⁶but at the place which ForeverOne your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came here out of Egypt.

⁷You shall roast and eat it in the place which ForeverOne your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents.

⁸Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to ForeverOne your God; you shall do no work [then].

⁹You shall count for yourselves seven weeks: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to number seven weeks.

¹⁰You shall keep the feast of weeks to ForeverOne your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as ForeverOne your God blesses you: ¹¹and you shall rejoice before ForeverOne your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which ForeverOne your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

¹²You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.

¹³You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress: ¹⁴and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.

¹⁵You shall keep a feast to ForeverOne your God seven days in the place which ForeverOne shall choose; because ForeverOne your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.

¹⁶Three times in a year shall all your males appear before ForeverOne 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 tents; and they shall not appear before ForeverOne empty-handed: ¹⁷every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of ForeverOne your God which he has given you.

¹⁸You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which ForeverOne your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

¹⁹You 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.

²⁰You shall pursue what is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which ForeverOne your God gives you.

²¹You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of ForeverOne your God, which you shall make for yourselves.

²²Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which ForeverOne your God hates.