16Deuteronomy 16

1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.Select Deuteronomy 16:1

2You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.Select Deuteronomy 16:2

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 out of the land of Egypt in haste; that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.Select Deuteronomy 16:3

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.Select Deuteronomy 16:4

5You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you;Select Deuteronomy 16:5

6but at the place which Yahweh 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 out of Egypt.Select Deuteronomy 16:6

7You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.Select Deuteronomy 16:7

8Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work.Select Deuteronomy 16:8

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.Select Deuteronomy 16:9

10You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you.Select Deuteronomy 16:10

11You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are in your midst, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.Select Deuteronomy 16:11

12You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.Select Deuteronomy 16:12

13You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press.Select Deuteronomy 16:13

14You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.Select Deuteronomy 16:14

15You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses; because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.Select Deuteronomy 16:15

16Three times in a year all of your shall males appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.Select Deuteronomy 16:16

17Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you.Select Deuteronomy 16:17

18You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.Select Deuteronomy 16:18

19You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.Select Deuteronomy 16:19

20You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.Select Deuteronomy 16:20

21You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourselves.Select Deuteronomy 16:21

22Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.Select Deuteronomy 16:22