Deuteronomy 16

1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, because in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out from Egypt by night.

2And you shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, from the flock and the herd, at the place that Yahweh will choose to make his name dwell there.

3You shall not eat leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you came out from the land of Egypt in haste, so that you may remember the day of your coming out from the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

4No leaven is to be seen with you within all your territory for seven days, and none of the flesh that you sacrifice in the evening on the first day shall remain overnight until morning.

5You may not sacrifice the Passover in any one of your gates that Yahweh your God is giving you,

6but only at the place that Yahweh your God will choose for his name to dwell—there you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening, at sunset, at the appointed time of your departure from Egypt.

7And you shall cook it and eat it in the place that the LORD your God will choose for it, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

8For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work.

9You shall count seven weeks for yourself; from the time the sickle begins to be put to the standing grain, you shall begin to count seven weeks.

10Then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give according to how Yahweh your God blesses you.

11And you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you—at the place that Yahweh your God will choose for his name to dwell there.

12Remember that you were a servant in Egypt, and keep and do these statutes.

13You shall keep the Feast of Booths for seven days, when you gather in from your threshing floor and from your winepress.

14And you shall rejoice in your festival—you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.

15For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to Yahweh your God in the place that Yahweh will choose, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.

16Three times a year all your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. No one shall appear before Yahweh empty-handed.

17Each man shall give according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given you.

18You shall appoint judges and officers for yourself in all your gates that Yahweh your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

19You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality; and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

20Justice, justice you shall pursue, so that you may live and possess the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.

21You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God that you make for yourself.

22And you shall not set up for yourself a pillar, which Yahweh your God hates.