Deuteronomy 16
1 “Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
2 Sacrifice the Passover offering to the LORD your God from the flock and the herd, at the place the LORD chooses as the dwelling for his name.
3 Do not eat anything leavened with it. For seven days eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste. Then you will remember the day you left the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
4 No leaven is to be seen anywhere in your territory for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day may remain until morning.
5 You may not sacrifice the Passover in any of the towns the LORD your God is giving you.
6 Instead, at the place the LORD your God chooses as the dwelling for his name, there you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening, at sunset, at the time you left Egypt.
7 Cook it and eat it at the place the LORD your God chooses. In the morning you may return and go to your tents.
8 For six days eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. Do no work.
9 Count seven weeks. Begin counting seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.
10 Celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you.
11 Rejoice before the LORD your God at the place he chooses as the dwelling for his name: you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, the Levite in your towns, the resident foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow among you.”
12 “Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and keep and observe these decrees.
13 Celebrate the Festival of Booths for seven days when you gather in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress.
14 Rejoice at your festival—you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, the Levite, the resident foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow in your towns.
15 For seven days celebrate the festival to the LORD your God at the place the LORD chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and you will be altogether joyful.
16 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God at the place he chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the LORD empty-handed.
17 Each person shall give as much as he can, in proportion to the blessing the LORD your God has given you.
18 Appoint judges and officials for yourself in all your towns the LORD your God is giving you, tribe by tribe, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
19 Do not pervert justice, show partiality, or accept a bribe, because a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
20 Justice, and justice alone, you shall pursue, so that you may live and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you.
21 Do not set up an Asherah pole of any kind beside the altar of the LORD your God that you make for yourself.
22 And do not set up a sacred pillar for yourself, which the LORD your God hates.”
Read and listen to this chapter in the Shalem app, free: narration, chapter video and reading progress. Get the app