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 sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, from the flock and from the herd, in the place that the Lord will choose to cause his name to dwell there.

³You 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 from the land of Egypt -- so that you may remember the day of your going out from the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

⁴And no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, and none of the flesh that you sacrifice in the evening on the first day shall remain until morning.

⁵You are not permitted to sacrifice the Passover in any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you.

⁶but only at the place that the Lord, your God, shall choose to make his name dwell -- there you shall sacrifice the Passover, at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the appointed time of your going out from Egypt.

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

⁸Six 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.

⁹Seven weeks you shall count for yourself; from the putting of the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count the seven weeks.

¹⁰And you shall keep the Feast of Weeks for the LORD your God, with the freewill offering of 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 and your male servant and your female servant and the Levite who is within your gates, and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place that the Lord your God will choose to cause his name to dwell there.

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

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

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

¹⁵Seven days you shall celebrate to the LORD your God, in the place that the LORD shall choose; for the LORD your God shall bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you shall 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, and at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. And none shall appear before the Lord empty-handed.

¹⁷Each according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given to you.

¹⁸Judges and officials you shall appoint for yourself 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 take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

²⁰Justice, justice you shall pursue, so that you may live and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

²¹You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD your God that you shall make for yourself.

²²And you shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.