“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. And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the
LORD your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place that the
LORD will choose, to make his name dwell there. You shall eat no
leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened
bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of
Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the
day when you came out of the land of Egypt. No leaven shall be seen
with you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the
flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all
night until morning. You may not offer the Passover sacrifice
within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, but
at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name
dwell in it, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice, in the
evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt. And you shall
cook it and eat it at the place that the LORD your God will choose.
And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. For six
days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there
shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no
work on it.
“You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from
the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. Then you
shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute
of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the
LORD your God blesses you. And you shall rejoice before the LORD
your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and
your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the
sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the
place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell
there. You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you
shall be careful to observe these statutes.
“You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have
gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your
winepress. You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and
your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the
Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within
your towns. For seven days you shall keep the feast to the LORD
your God at the place that the LORD will choose, because the LORD
your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of
your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.
“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD
your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of
Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of
Booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed. Every
man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD
your God that he has given you.
“You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the
LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they
shall judge the people with righteous judgment. You shall not
pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not
accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and
subverts the cause of the righteous. Justice, and only justice, you
shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the LORD
your God is giving you.
“You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of
the LORD your God that you shall make. And you shall not set up a
pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
