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Deuteronomy 16

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1 Keep the month of Abib, and you shall do the Passover to YHWH your God, for in the month of Abib YHWH your God brought you out of Egypt by night. VP

2 And you shall sacrifice the Passover to YHWH your God, of the flock and of the herd, in the place where YHWH will choose to cause His Name to dwell there. VP

3 You shall not eat leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat with it unleavened [bread], the bread of affliction—for in haste you came out of the land of Egypt—so that you may remember the day of your coming out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. VP

4 And there shall not be seen among you leaven in all your territory seven days, and nothing from the flesh that you sacrifice in the evening on the first day shall remain overnight until the morning. VP

5 You are not able to sacrifice the Passover within one of your gates that YHWH your God is giving to you; VP

6 but only at the place where YHWH your God will choose to cause His Name to dwell, there you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening, at the going down of the sun, the appointed time of your coming out from Egypt. VP

7 And you shall cook and you shall eat in the place that YHWH your God will choose, and you shall turn in the morning and go to your tents. VP

8 Six days you shall eat unleavened [bread], and on the seventh day [is] a sacred assembly to YHWH your God; you shall do no work. VP

9 Seven weeks you shall count for yourself—from beginning the sickle among the grain you shall begin to count seven weeks. VP

10 And you shall do the Feast of Weeks to YHWH your God with the tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give as YHWH your God blesses you. VP

11 And you shall rejoice before the face of YHWH your God—you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite who [is] within your gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow who [are] among you, at the place where YHWH your God will choose to cause His Name to dwell there. VP

12 And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall keep and you shall do these statutes. VP

13 The Feast of Booths you shall do for yourself seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress. VP

14 And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow who [are] within your gates. VP

15 Seven days you shall celebrate a feast to YHWH your God in the place that YHWH will choose, because YHWH your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be only joyful. VP

16 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the face of YHWH your God in the place that He will choose: At the Feast of the Unleavened, and at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. And he shall not appear before the face of YHWH emptily— VP

17 each man according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of YHWH your God that He has given to you. VP

18 Judges and officers you shall give for yourself within all your gates that YHWH your God is giving to you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. VP

19 You shall not bend judgement; you shall not recognize faces; and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. VP

20 Righteousness, righteousness you shall pursue, so that you may live and possess the land that YHWH your God is giving to you. VP

21 You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah pole of any tree near the altar of YHWH your God that you shall make for yourself. VP

22 And you shall not raise up for yourself a pillar, which YHWH your God hates. VP

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