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Chapter 16 |
| 1 | Observe 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. |
| 2 | Thou
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. |
| 3 |
Thou 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. |
| 4 |
And 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.
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| 5 | Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which
the LORD thy God giveth thee: |
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6 | But 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. |
| 7 |
And 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. |
| 8 |
Six 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. |
| 9
| Seven 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. |
| 10 |
And 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: |
| 11 |
And 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. |
| 12
| And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in
Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. |
| 13 | Thou shalt
observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in
thy corn and thy wine: |
| 14 | And 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. |
| 15
| Seven 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. |
| 16 | Three 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:
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| 17 | Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the
LORD thy God which he hath given thee. |
| 18 | Judges 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. |
| 19 | Thou
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. |
| 20
| That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that
thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee. |
| 21 |
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the
altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. |
| 22 | Neither
shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth. |
