Deuteronomy 16

¹Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God , for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night .

²And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God , from the flock or the herd , at the place that the Lord will choose , to make his name dwell there .

³You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread , the bread of affliction — for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste — that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt .

⁴No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days , nor shall any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning .

⁵You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you,

⁶but at the place that the Lord your God will choose , to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice , in the evening at sunset , at the time you came out of Egypt .

⁷And you shall cook it and eat it at the place that the Lord your God will choose . And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents .

⁸For six days you shall eat unleavened bread , and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God . You shall do no work on it.

⁹You shall count seven weeks . Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain .

¹⁰Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand , which you shall give as the Lord your God blesses you.

¹¹And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God , you and your son and your daughter , your male servant and your female servant , the Levite who is within your towns , the sojourner , the fatherless , and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose , to make his name dwell there .

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

¹³You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days , when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress .

¹⁴You shall rejoice in your feast , you and your son and your daughter , your male servant and your female servant , the Levite , the sojourner , the fatherless , and the widow who are within your towns .

¹⁵For seven days you shall keep the feast to the Lord your God at the place that the Lord will choose , because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands , so that you will be altogether joyful .

¹⁶Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose : at the Feast of Unleavened Bread , at the Feast of Weeks , and at the Feast of Booths . They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed .

¹⁷Every man shall give as he is able , according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.

¹⁸You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes , and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment .

¹⁹You shall not pervert justice . You shall not show partiality , and you shall not accept a bribe , for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous .

²⁰Justice , and only justice , you shall follow , that you may live and inherit the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

²¹You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make .

²²And you shall not set up a pillar , which the Lord your God hates .