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.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:1CopyShareAsk

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:2CopyShareAsk

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:3CopyShareAsk

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:4CopyShareAsk

⁵Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:SelectedDeuteronomy 16:5CopyShareAsk

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:6CopyShareAsk

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:7CopyShareAsk

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:8CopyShareAsk

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:9CopyShareAsk

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:SelectedDeuteronomy 16:10CopyShareAsk

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:11CopyShareAsk

¹²And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:12CopyShareAsk

¹³Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:SelectedDeuteronomy 16:13CopyShareAsk

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:14CopyShareAsk

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:15CopyShareAsk

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:SelectedDeuteronomy 16:16CopyShareAsk

¹⁷Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:17CopyShareAsk

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:18CopyShareAsk

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:19CopyShareAsk

²⁰That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:20CopyShareAsk

²¹Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:21CopyShareAsk

²²Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.SelectedDeuteronomy 16:22CopyShareAsk