Deuteronomy 16
1Observe
the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth
out of Egypt by night.
2Thou shalt therefore
sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place
his name there.
3Thou shalt eat no leavened
bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out
of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days
of thy life.
4And there shall be no leavened
bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the
first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
5Thou
mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
6But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there
thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
7And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place
which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
8Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn
assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.
9Seven
weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the
corn.
10And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks
unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according
as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
11And
thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant,
and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place
which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
12And
thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
13Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast
gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
14And thou
shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite,
the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
15Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall
choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou
shalt surely rejoice.
16Three times in a year
shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy 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 the LORD empty:
17Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy
God which he hath given thee.
18Judges and
officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall
judge the people with just judgment.
19Thou
shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise,
and pervert the words of the righteous.
20That
which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
21Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any
trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
22Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.