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1 Observe the month
of Abib, and keep
the Passover to
the LORD your
God; for in
the month of Abib
the LORD your
God brought you
out of Egypt
by night.
2 You
shall sacrifice
the Passover to
the LORD your
God, of the
flock and the
herd, in the
place which the
LORD 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 meat,
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
the LORD your
God gives you;
6 but
at the place
which the LORD
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 the
LORD 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 the LORD
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 count
seven weeks.
10 You
shall keep the
feast of weeks
to the LORD
your God with
a tribute of
a free will
offering of your
hand, which you
shall give
according to how
the LORD your
God blesses you.
11 You
shall rejoice
before the LORD
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
the LORD 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 booths
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 the
LORD your God
seven days in
the place which
the LORD chooses,
because the LORD
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 the
LORD your God
in the place
which he chooses:
in the feast
of unleavened
bread, in the
feast of weeks,
and in the
feast of booths.
They shall not
appear before the
LORD empty.
17 Every man
shall give as
he is able,
according to the
LORD your God’s
blessing which he
has given you.
18 You
shall make judges
and officers in
all your gates,
which the LORD
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 the
LORD your God
gives you.
21 You
shall not plant
for yourselves
an Asherah of
any kind of
tree beside the
LORD your God’s
altar, which you
shall make for
yourselves.
22 Neither
shall you
set yourself up
a sacred stone which
the LORD your
God hates.