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The Book of Deuteronomy 16

16 Keep the month of Aviv, and make the Passover to Yahweh your God, for in the month of Aviv, Yahweh your God brought you out from Egypt by night. 2 And you shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, the flock and the herd, in the place that Yahweh will choose for his name to dwell there. 3 You shall not eat on it leavened bread; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread on it, the bread of affliction; for you came out from the land of Egypt in haste. Thus, you will remember the day of your exit from the land of Egypt all the days of your life. 4 And no yeast shall be seen among you in all your borders seven days; and nothing from the meat that you sacrifice in the evening on the first day shall remain until the morning.

5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates that Yahweh your God is giving to you. 6 Instead, at the place that Yahweh your God will choose for his name to dwell, there you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening at the going down of the sun, at the appointed time of your exit from Egypt. 7 And you shall cook and eat in the place which Yahweh your God will choose it; and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. 8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is a festive assembly for Yahweh your God; you shall not do work.

9 You shall count seven weeks for yourself; from the beginning of the sickle on the grain you shall start counting seven weeks. 10 And you shall make the Festival of Weeks for Yahweh your God with the contribution of a freewill offering of your hand that you shall give, as Yahweh your God has blessed you. 11 And you will rejoice before the face of Yahweh 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 foreigner and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, in the place that Yahweh your God will choose for his name to dwell there.

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

13 You must make the Festival of Shelters for yourselves seven days into your gathering from your threshing floor and from your winepress. 14 And you shall rejoice in your festival—you and your son and your daughter and your male servant and your female servant and the Levite and the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates. 15 Seven days you shall celebrate for Yahweh your God at the place that Yahweh will choose, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and you will be completely joyful.

16 Three times in a year all your males shall appear before the face of Yahweh your God at the place that he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and at the Festival of Weeks, and at the Festival of Shelters. And they shall not appear before the face of Yahweh emptily; 17 every man according to the giving of his hand, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you.

18 You shall set for yourself judges and officers within all your gates that Yahweh your God is giving to you, from each of your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. 19 You shall not twist a judgment; you shall not recognize a face and 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 pursue justice, justice alone, so that you will live and possess the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you.

21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah, any pole, beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourself. 22 And you shall not erect for yourself a pillar, which Yahweh your God hates.

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