Deuteronomy 16:16-22 ▼

16 Three times in a year all of your males appear before your God YHWH in the place which He chooses: in the Celebration of Unleavened Things, and in the Celebration of Weeks, and in the Celebration of Shelters; and they do not appear before YHWH empty;

17 each [gives] according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of your God YHWH, which He has given to you.

18 You set for yourself judges and authorities within all your gates which your God YHWH is giving to you, for your tribes; and they have judged the people [with] a righteous judgment.

19 You do not turn aside judgment; you do not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

20 Righteousness—you pursue righteousness, so that you live and have possessed the land which your God YHWH is giving to you.

21 You do not plant an Asherah of any trees for yourself near the altar of your God YHWH, which you make for yourself,

22 and you do not raise up any standing image for yourself which your God YHWH is hating.”