The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Deuteronomy 16
1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep
the Passover to Yahweh your God; for
in the month of Abib Yahweh your God
brought you out of Egypt by night.
2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd,
in the place which Yahweh shall choose to
cause his name to dwell there.
3 You shall eat no leavened bread with
it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it
sevendays, eventhe bread of affliction(for
you came out of the land of Egypt in haste)
that you may remember the day when you
came out ofthe land of Egypt allthe days of
your life.
4 No yeast shall be seen with you in all
your borders seven days; neither shall any
of the meat, which you sacrifice the first
day at evening, remain all night until the
morning.
5 You may not sacrifice the Passover
within any of your gates which Yahweh
your God gives you;
6 but at the place which Yahweh your
God shall choose to cause his name to
dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the
Passover at evening, at the going down of
the sun, at the season that you came out of
Egypt.
7 You shall roast and eat it in the place
which Yahweh your God chooses. In the
morning you shall return to your tents.
8 Six days you shall eat unleavened
bread. On the seventh day shall be a
solemnassembly to Yahweh your God. You
shall do no work.
9 You shall count for yourselves seven
weeks. From the time you begin to put the
sickle to the standing grain you shall begin
to count seven weeks.
10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to
Yahweh your God with a tribute of a free
will offering of your hand, which you shall
give according to how Yahweh your God
blesses you.
11 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your
God: you, your son, your daughter, your
male servant, your female servant, the
Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who
are among you, in the place which Yahweh
your God shall choose to cause his name to
dwell there.
12 You shall remember that you were a
slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do
these statutes.
13 You shall keep the feast of booths
seven days, after you have gathered in
from your threshing floor and from your
wine press.
14 You shall rejoice in your feast, you,
your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the
foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow
who are within your gates.
15 You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your
God seven days in the place which Yahweh
chooses, because Yahweh your God will
bless you in all your increase and in all
the work of your hands, and you shall be
altogether joyful.
16 Three times in a year all of your males
shall appear before Yahweh your God in
the place which he chooses: in the feast of
unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks,
and in the feast of booths. They shall not
appear before Yahweh empty.
17 Every man shall give as he is able,
according to Yahweh your God’s blessing
which he has given you. 18 You shall make judges and officers in
all your gates, which Yahweh your God
gives you, according to your tribes; and
they shall judge the people with righteous
judgment.
19 You shall not pervert justice. You shall
not show partiality. You shall not take a
bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the
wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit
the land which Yahweh your God gives
you.
21 You shall not plant for yourselves an
Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh
your God’s altar, which you shall make for
yourselves.
22 Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.