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Deuteronomy 16
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The Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread...
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`Guard the month of Abib, and perform the Passover to YHWH your Elohim, for in the month of Abib YHWH your Elohim brought you out of Mitsrayim by night.
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`And you shall slaughter the Passover to YHWH your Elohim, from the flock and the herd, in the place where YHWH chooses to put His Name.
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'Eat no leavened bread with it. For seven days you eat unleavened bread with it, bread of affliction, because you came out of the land of Mitsrayim in haste - so that you remember the day in which you came out of the land of Mitsrayim, all the days of your life.
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`And no leaven should be seen with you in all your border for seven days, neither should any of the meat which you slaughter in the evening on the first day stay all night until morning.
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'You are not allowed to slaughter the Passover within any of your gates which YHWH your Elohim gives you,
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but at the place where YHWH your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell, there you slaughter the Passover in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at the appointed time you came out of Mitsrayim.
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'And you shall roast and eat it in the place which YHWH your Elohim chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.
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'Six days you eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there is a closing festival to YHWH your Elohim - you do no work.
Feast of Weeks...
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`Count seven weeks for yourself. Begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.
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'And you shall perform the Festival of Weeks to YHWH your Elohim, according to the voluntary offering from your hand, which you give as YHWH your Elohim blesses you.
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'And you shall rejoice before YHWH your Elohim, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Lewite who is within your gates, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are in your midst, at the place where YHWH your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell.
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'And you shall remember that you were a slave in Mitsrayim, and you shall guard and do these laws.
Feast of Tabernacles...
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`Perform the Festival of Booths for seven days after the ingathering from your threshing-floor and from your winepress,
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and you shall rejoice in your festival, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Lewite, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates.
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'For seven days you shall observe a festival to YHWH your Elohim in the place which YHWH chooses, because YHWH your Elohim does bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be only rejoicing!
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'Three times a year all your males appear before YHWH your Elohim in the place which He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and at the Festival of Weeks, and at the Festival of Booths. And none should appear before YHWH empty-handed,
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but each one with the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of YHWH your Elohim which He has given you.
Judges...
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`Appoint judges and officers within all your gates, which YHWH your Elohim is giving you, according to your tribes. And they shall judge the people with righteous right-ruling.
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'Do not distort right-ruling. Do not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
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'Follow righteousness, righteousness alone, so that you live and inherit the land which YHWH your Elohim is giving you.
Worshiping Other Gods...
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`Do not plant for yourself any tree as an Asherah near the altar of YHWH your Elohim that you make for yourself.
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'And do not set up a pillar, which YHWH your Elohim hates.
Deuteronomy 16
Deuteronomy 16 |