^16:1 Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to Jehovah your God, because in the month of Abib Jehovah your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night. ^16:2 And you will sacrifice the Passover to Jehovah your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Jehovah will choose to cause his name to dwell there.

    ^16:3 You will eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you will eat unleavened bread with it, even the bread of affliction, because you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste, that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. ^16:4 And no leaven will be seen with you in all your borders seven days. Neither will any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.

    ^16:5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you, ^16:6 but at the place which Jehovah your God will choose to cause his name to dwell in, you will sacrifice the Passover at evening there, at the setting of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt. ^16:7 And you will roast and eat it in the place which Jehovah your God will choose and you will turn in the morning and go to your tents. ^16:8 Six days you will eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day will be a solemn assembly to Jehovah your God. You will do no work.

    ^16:9 You will number to you seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you will begin to number seven weeks. ^16:10 And you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread to Jehovah your God with a tribute of a free-will offering from your hand, which you will give, just-as Jehovah your God blesses you.

    ^16:11 And you will rejoice before Jehovah your God, you and your son and your daughter and your man-servant and your maid-servant and the Levite who is within your gates and the traveler and the fatherless and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Jehovah your God will choose to cause his name to dwell there, ^16:12 and you will remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt. And you will observe and do these statutes.

    ^16:13 You will keep the Feast of Booths seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing-floor and from your winepress. ^16:14 And you will rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your man-servant and your maid-servant and the Levite and the traveler and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates.

    ^16:15 Seven days you will keep a feast to Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah will choose, because Jehovah your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands and you will be altogether joyful.

    ^16:16 Three times in a year all your males will appear before Jehovah your God in the place which he will choose: in the Feast of Unleavened Bread and in the Feast of Weeks and in the Feast of Booths. And they will not appear before Jehovah empty. ^16:17Every man will give as he is able, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which he has given you.

    ^16:18 You will make judges and officers for you in all your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you, according to your tribes and they will judge the people with righteous judgment. ^16:19 You will not distort justice. You will not respect persons, neither will you take a bribe, because a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. ^16:20 You will follow what is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

    ^16:21 You will not plant for you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah your God, which you will make for you. ^16:22 Neither will you set up a pillar for you, which Jehovah your God hates.