Deuteronomy 16
16
The Passover
1Celebrate the Passover of the Lord your God during the month of Abib. It was during Abib that he brought you out of Egypt at night. 2Offer a sacrifice for the Passover to the Lord your God. It should be an animal from your flock or herd. Offer it at the place the Lord will choose to be worshiped. 3Do not eat it with bread made with yeast. But for seven days eat bread made without yeast. This is the bread of suffering because you left Egypt in a hurry. So all your life you will remember the time you left Egypt. 4There must be no yeast anywhere in your land for seven days. Offer the sacrifice on the evening of the first day. Eat all the meat before morning. Do not leave it overnight.
5Do not offer the Passover sacrifice in just any town the Lord your God gives you. 6Offer it in the place he will choose to be worshiped. Offer it in the evening as the sun goes down. That is when you left Egypt. 7Roast the meat. Then eat it at the place the Lord your God will choose. The next morning go back to your tents. 8Eat bread made without yeast for six days. On the seventh day have a special meeting for the Lord your God. Do not work that day.
Feast of Weeks
9Count seven weeks from the time you begin to harvest the grain. 10Then celebrate the Feast of Weeks for the Lord your God. Bring him an offering as a special gift to him. Give to him just as he has blessed you. 11Rejoice before the Lord your God. Rejoice at the place he will choose to be worshiped. Everybody should rejoice: you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your town, the strangers, orphans and widows living among you. 12Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. And carefully obey all these laws.
Feast of Shelters
13Celebrate the Feast of Shelters for seven days. Do it after you have gathered your harvest from the threshing floor and winepress. 14Everybody should rejoice at your Feast: you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites and strangers who live in your towns, orphans and widows in your towns. 15Celebrate the Feast to the Lord your God for seven days. Celebrate it at the place he will choose. The Lord your God will bless all your harvest. He will bless all the work you do. And you will be completely happy.
16All your men must come before the Lord three times a year. They must come to the place he will choose. They must come at these times: the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Shelters. No man should come before the Lord without a gift. 17Each of you must bring a gift. It should show how much the Lord your God has blessed you.
Judges for the People
18Appoint judges and officers for your tribes. Appoint them in every town the Lord your God is giving you. And they must judge the people fairly. 19Do not judge unfairly or take sides. Do not let people pay you to make wrong decisions. That kind of payment makes wise people seem blind. And it changes the words of good people. 20Always do what is right. Then you will live and own the land the Lord your God is giving you.
God Hates Idols
21Do not set up a wooden Asherah idol next to the altar you build for the Lord your God. 22And do not set up holy stone pillars. The Lord your God hates them.
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Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 16
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1Guard the new moon of Aḇiḇ, and perform the Pĕsaḥ#Pĕsaḥ - See Explanatory Notes - "Passover". to יהוה your Elohim, for in the new moon#Or month. of Aḇiḇ יהוה your Elohim brought you out of Mitsrayim by night.
2“And you shall slaughter the Pĕsaḥ to יהוה your Elohim, from the flock and the herd, in the place where יהוה chooses to put His Name.
3“Eat no leavened bread with it. For seven days you eat unleavened bread with it, bread of affliction, because you came out of the land of Mitsrayim in haste – so that you remember the day in which you came out of the land of Mitsrayim, all the days of your life.
4And no leaven should be seen with you in all your border for seven days, neither should any of the meat which you slaughter in the evening on the first day stay all night until morning.
5“You are not allowed to slaughter the Pĕsaḥ within any of your gates which יהוה your Elohim gives you,
6but at the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell, there you slaughter the Pĕsaḥ in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at the appointed time you came out of Mitsrayim.
7“And you shall roast and eat it in the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.
8“Six days you eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there is a closing festival to יהוה your Elohim – you do no work.
9“Count seven weeks for yourself. Begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.
10And you shall perform the Festival of Shaḇu’ot#Weeks. to יהוה your Elohim, according to the voluntary offering from your hand, which you give as יהוה your Elohim blesses you.
11“And you shall rejoice before יהוה your Elohim, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Lĕwite who is within your gates, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are in your midst, at the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell.
12“And you shall remember that you were a slave in Mitsrayim, and you shall guard and do these laws.
13Perform the Festival of Sukkot#Booths. for seven days after the ingathering from your threshing-floor and from your winepress,
14and you shall rejoice in your festival, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Lĕwite, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates.
15“For seven days you shall celebrate to יהוה your Elohim in the place which יהוה chooses, because יהוה your Elohim does bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be only rejoicing!
16Three times a year all your males appear before יהוה your Elohim in the place which He chooses: at the Festival of Matzot,#Unleavened Bread. and at the Festival of Shaḇu’ot,#Weeks and at the Festival of Sukkot#Booths.. And none should appear before יהוה empty-handed,
17but each one with the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of יהוה your Elohim which He has given you.
18“Appoint judges and officers within all your gates, which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, according to your tribes. And they shall judge the people with righteous right-ruling.
19“Do not distort right-ruling. Do not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
20Follow righteousness, righteousness alone, so that you live and inherit the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you.
21“Do not plant for yourself any tree as an Ashĕrah near the slaughter-place of יהוה your Elohim that you make for yourself.
22“And do not set up a pillar, which יהוה your Elohim hates.
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