Deuteronomy 16

Revised Geneva Translation

16 “You shall keep the month of Abib. And you shall celebrate 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 therefore offer the Passover to the LORD your God, of sheep and bullocks, in the place where the LORD shall choose to cause His Name to dwell.

³ “You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it (the Bread of Tribulation, for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), so that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt, all the days of your life.

⁴ “And there shall be no leaven seen with you on all your coasts for seven days. Nor shall there remain until the morning any of the flesh which you offered the first day at evening.

⁵ “You may not offer the Passover within any of the gates which the LORD your God gives you.

⁶ “But, in the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place His Name, there you shall offer the Passover at evening, around the going down of the Sun, in the season that you came out of Egypt.

⁷ “And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, and shall return the next day and go to your tents.

⁸ “Six days shall you eat unleavened bread. And the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work.

⁹ “You shall count out seven weeks and shall begin to count the seven weeks when you begin to put the sickle to the corn.

¹⁰ “And you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God, a free gift of your hand, which you shall give to the LORD your God as the LORD your God has blessed you.

¹¹ “And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God — you and your son and your daughter and your servant and your maid and the Levite who is within your gates and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you — in the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place His Name.

¹² “And you shall remember that you were a servant in Egypt. Therefore, you shall observe and do these Ordinances.

¹³ “You shall observe the Feast of the Tabernacles for seven days, after you have gathered in your corn, and your wine.

¹⁴ “And you shall rejoice in your feast — you and your son and your daughter and your servant and your maid and the Levite and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates.

¹⁵ “Seven days shall you keep a feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose, when the LORD your God shall bless you in all your increase and in all the works of your hands. You shall, indeed, be glad.

¹⁶ “Three times in the year shall all the males appear before the LORD your God, in the place which He shall choose: at the Feast of the Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of the Weeks and at the Feast of the Tabernacle. And they shall not appear before the LORD empty,

¹⁷ “every man according to the gift of his hand and according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you.

¹⁸ “You shall make yourself judges and officers in all your cities which the LORD your God gives you, throughout the tribes. And they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

¹⁹ “Do not pervert the Law or show partiality or take reward. For the reward blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the just.

²⁰ “That which is just and right you shall follow, so that you may live and possess the land which the LORD your God gives you.

²¹ “You shall plant for yourself no grove of any trees near the Altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make yourself.

²² “You shall set up for yourself no pillar (which the LORD your God hates).