Deuteronomy 16:2-22 ▼

2 And you shall sacrifice the Passover to YHWH your God, of the flock or of the herd, in the place where YHWH chooses for His Name to dwell there.

3 You 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 of the land of Egypt—so that you may remember the day of your coming out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

4 And there shall not be seen among you leaven in all your territory seven days, nor shall remain overnight any of the flesh that you sacrifice in the evening on the first day until the morning.

5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within one of your gates that YHWH your God gives you.

6 For only at the place where YHWH your God chooses for His Name to dwell, there you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt.

7 And you shall roast it and eat it in the place that YHWH your God chooses, and you shall turn in the morning and go to your tents.

8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is a sacred assembly to YHWH your God; you shall do no work.

9 Seven weeks you shall count for yourself—from beginning the sickle among the grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.

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

11 And you shall rejoice before the face of YHWH your God—you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow who is among you, at the place where YHWH your God chooses for His Name to dwell there.

12 And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful and do these statutes.

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

14 And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow who is within your gates.

15 Seven days you shall celebrate a feast to YHWH your God in the place that YHWH chooses, because YHWH your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.

16 Three times in a year all your males shall appear before the face of YHWH your God in the place that He chooses: At the Feast of the Unleavened, and at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. And they shall not appear before the face of YHWH emptily—

17 a man as he is able, according to the blessing of YHWH your God that He has given you.

18 You shall appoint judges and officers to you within all your gates that YHWH your God gives to you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

19 You shall not twist justice; you shall not show partiality nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

20 Justice and justice alone you shall pursue, that you may live and inherit the land that YHWH your God is giving to you.

21 You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah pole of any tree near the altar of YHWH your God that you build for yourself.

22 And you shall not set up a sacred pillar, which YHWH your God hates.