Deuteronomy 16
16
Passover celebration
1Wait for the month of Abib,#16.1 March–April; called Nisan in post-exilic period at which time you must perform the Passover for the LORD your God, because the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt at nighttime during the month of Abib. 2Offer a Passover sacrifice from the flock or herd to the LORD your God at the location the LORD selects for his name to reside. 3You must not eat anything containing yeast along with it.#16.3 It, the Passover sacrifice Instead, for seven days you must eat unleavened bread, bread symbolizing misery, along with it because you fled Egypt in a great hurry. Do this so you remember the day you fled Egypt for as long as you live. 4No dough with yeast should appear in any of your territory for seven days. Furthermore, none of the meat that you sacrificed on the first night should remain until morning. 5You are not permitted to offer the Passover sacrifice in any of the cities that the LORD your God is giving you. 6Instead, you must offer the Passover sacrifice at the location the LORD your God selects for his name to reside, at evening time, when the sun sets, which was the time you fled Egypt. 7Cook it and eat it in the location that the LORD your God selects. The next morning you can return to your tents. 8For six days you will eat unleavened bread. The seventh day will be a celebration for the LORD your God. Don’t do any work.
Festival of Weeks
9Count out seven weeks, starting the count from the beginning of the grain harvest. 10At that point, perform the Festival of Weeks for the LORD your God. Offer a spontaneous gift in precise measure with the blessing the LORD your God gives you. 11Then celebrate in the presence of the LORD your God—you, your sons, your daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites who live in your cities, the immigrants, the orphans, and the widows who are among you—in the location the LORD your God selects for his name to reside. 12Remember how each of you was a slave in Egypt, so follow these regulations most carefully.
Festival of Booths
13Once you have collected the food and drink you need, perform the Festival of Booths for seven days. 14Celebrate your festival: you, your sons, your daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites, the immigrants, the orphans, and the widows who live in your cities. 15Seven days you must perform the festival for the LORD your God in the location the LORD selects because the LORD your God will bless you in all you do and in all your work. You will be overjoyed.
16Three times a year every male among you must appear before the presence of the LORD your God in the location he will select: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. They must not appear before the LORD’s presence empty-handed. 17Each one should have his gift in hand, in precise measure with the blessing the LORD your God gives you.
Judges and officials
18Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every city that the LORD your God gives you. They must judge the people fairly. 19Don’t delay justice; don’t show favoritism. Don’t take bribes because bribery blinds the vision of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. 20Righteousness! Pursue righteousness so that you live long and take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Rules for worship
21Don’t plant any tree to serve as a sacred pole#16.21 Heb asherah, perhaps an object devoted to the goddess Asherah next to the altar you make for the LORD your God. 22Don’t set up any sacred stone either, because the LORD your God hates such things.
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Deuteronomy 16
16
The Festival of Passover
1“Set aside the month of Abib#16:1 March–April; called Nisan in the post-exilic period; Neh 2:1; Est 3:7#Ex 12 and observe the Passover to the Lord your God, because the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night in the month of Abib.#Ex 13:4; 23:15; 34:18 2Sacrifice to the Lord your God a Passover animal from the herd or flock in the place where the Lord chooses to have his name dwell.#Dt 12:11 3Do not eat leavened bread with it.#Ex 12:15; 13:6–7; 23:15; 34:18; Lv 23:6; Nm 28:17; 2Ch 30:21; 35:17; Ezr 6:22; Ezk 45:21; Ac 20:6 For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of hardship — because you left the land of Egypt in a hurry#Ex 12:11 — so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt. 4No yeast is to be found anywhere in your territory for seven days,#Ex 12:39; 13:7 and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day is to remain until morning.#Ex 12:10; Lv 7:17; 8:32 5You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns the Lord your God is giving you. 6Sacrifice the Passover animal only at the place where the Lord your God chooses to have his name dwell. Do this in the evening as the sun sets at the same time of day you departed from Egypt. 7You are to cook and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses, and you are to return to your tents in the morning. 8Eat unleavened bread for six days. On the seventh day there is to be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God; do not do any work.
The Festival of Weeks
9“You are to count seven weeks, counting the weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.#Lv 23:15–21 10You are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks#Ex 34:22; Nm 28:26; 2Ch 8:13 to the Lord your God with a freewill offering#Ex 35:29; Lv 7:16; 22:21,23; Nm 15:3; Ezr 1:4,6; 8:28; Ps 54:6 that you give in proportion to how the Lord your God has blessed you. 11Rejoice#Lv 23:40; Dt 12:12; 14:26; 26:11; 27:7 before the Lord your God in the place where he chooses to have his name dwell — you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your city gates, as well as the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow among you. 12Remember that you were slaves in Egypt; carefully follow these statutes.
The Festival of Shelters
13“You are to celebrate the Festival of Shelters#Lv 23:34; Dt 31:10; 2Ch 8:13; Ezr 3:4; Zch 14:16–19 for seven days when you have gathered in everything from your threshing floor and winepress.#Lv 23:33–43 14Rejoice during your festival — you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, as well as the Levite, the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow within your city gates. 15You are to hold a seven-day festival for the Lord your God in the place he chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands,#Ex 23:14,17; 34:23–24; 1Kg 9:25 and you will have abundant joy.
16“All your males are to appear three times a year#Ex 23:14,17; 34:23–24; 1Kg 9:25; Lk 2:42 before the Lord your God in the place he chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.#Ex 3:21; 23:15; 34:20 17Everyone must appear with a gift suited to his means, according to the blessing the Lord your God has given you.
Appointing Judges and Officials
18“Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the Lord your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment. 19Do not deny justice or show partiality to anyone. Do not accept a bribe, for it blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.#Ex 23:8; Dt 10:17; 27:25; 1Sm 12:3; 2Ch 19:7; Ps 15:5; Pr 17:23; Is 33:15; Ezk 22:12; Am 5:12 20Pursue justice and justice alone, so that you will live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.#Ex 23:2–9
Forbidden Worship
21“Do not set up an Asherah of any kind of wood next to the altar you will build for the Lord your God, 22and do not set up a sacred pillar; the Lord your God hates them.#Dt 7:1–5; 12:2–3; 2Kg 23:2–6
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