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1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the
Passover to Jehovah your God; for in the month of Abib Jehovah your God brought
you out of Egypt by night. 2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Jehovah
your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Jehovah 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 seven days, even the bread of
affliction; for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste; that you may
remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your
life. 4 No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days;
neither shall any of the flesh, 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 Jehovah your God gives you; 6 but at the
place which Jehovah 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 Jehovah 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 solemn assembly to Jehovah 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 number seven weeks. 10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Jehovah
your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall
give, according as Jehovah your God blesses you. 11 You shall rejoice
before Jehovah 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 Jehovah 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 tents 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 Jehovah your God
seven days in the place which Jehovah chooses; because Jehovah 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 Jehovah your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of
unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. They shall
not appear before Jehovah empty. 17 Every man shall give as he is able,
according to Jehovah your God’s blessing which he has given you.
18 You shall make judges and officers in all your
gates, which Jehovah 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 Jehovah your God gives you. 21 You shall not plant for
yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah your God,
which you shall make for yourselves. 22 Neither shall you set yourself up
a sacred stone which Jehovah your God hates.
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