Deuteronomy 16

¹“Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the Lord

²Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord

³You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

⁴And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight remain overnight until morning.

⁵“You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the Lord

⁶but at the place where the Lord

⁷And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the Lord

⁸Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly to the Lord

⁹“You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.

¹⁰Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord

¹¹You shall rejoice before the Lord

¹²And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

¹³“You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.

¹⁴And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates.

¹⁵Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the Lord

¹⁶“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord

¹⁷Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord

¹⁸“You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the Lord

¹⁹You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

²⁰You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the Lord

²¹“You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the Lord

²²You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the Lord