[1] Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God;
for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out of Egypt by
night. [2] You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the
flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause his
name to dwell there. [3] You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven
days shall you eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of
affliction; for 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. [4] There shall be no yeast seen with you in all your
borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the
first day at even, remain all night until the morning. [5] You may not
sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which Yahweh your God
gives you; [6] but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to
cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at even,
at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of
Egypt. [7] You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God
shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents. [8]
Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a
solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work [therein]. [9]
Seven weeks shall you number to you: from the time you begin to put the
sickle to the standing grain shall you begin to number seven weeks. [10]
You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a
freewill-offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh
your God blesses you: [11] and you shall rejoice before Yahweh 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 sojourner,
and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the
place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
[12] You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall
observe and do these statutes. [13] You shall keep the feast of tents seven
days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from
your winepress: [14] and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your
son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and
the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are
within your gates. [15] Seven days shall you keep a feast to Yahweh your
God in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will
bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you
shall be altogether joyful. [16] Three times in a year shall all your males
appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose: in the
feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of
tents; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty: [17] every man shall
give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he
has given you. [18] Judges and officers shall you make you in all your
gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they
shall judge the people with righteous judgment. [19] You shall not wrest
justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for
a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the
righteous. [20] That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you
may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you. [21] You
shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of
Yahweh your God, which you shall make you. [22] Neither shall you set you
up a pillar; which Yahweh your God hates.
