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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. |
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| 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. |
| 5 | Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover
within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: |
| 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. |
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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: |
| 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. |
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22 | Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God
hateth. |
