Deuteronomy 16

Keeping the month of Aviv, and you shall make the Passover to God your God, for in the month of Aviv, God your God brought you out from Egypt {by} night.

And you shall sacrifice the Passover to God your God, the flock and the herd, in the place that God will choose to make his name stay there. \*

You shall not eat with it leavened bread, seven days you shall eat unleavened bread on it, the bread of affliction, for you came out from the land of Egypt in haste. Thus, you will remember the day of your exit from the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

And no yeast shall be seen among you in all your borders seven days, and nothing from the meat that you sacrifice in the evening on the first day shall remain until the morning. \*

You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates that God your God is giving to you.

Instead, at the place that God your God will choose to make his name stay there, you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening at the going down of the sun, at the appointed time of your exit from Egypt. \*

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

Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day {is} a festive assembly for God your God, do not do work. \*

You shall count seven weeks for yourself; from the beginning of the sickle on the grain you shall start counting seven weeks.

And you shall make the Festival of Weeks for God your God {with} the contribution of a freewill offering of your hand that you shall give, as God your God has blessed you. \*

And you will rejoice to the face of God your God—you and your son and your daughter and your male servant and your female servant and the Levite who {is} within your gates and the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow who {are} among you, in the place that God your God will choose to make his name stay there. \*

And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall keep and do these statutes. \*

You must make the Festival of Huts for yourselves seven days into your gathering from your threshing floor and from your winepress.

And 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 foreigner and the fatherless and the widow who {are} within your gates. \*

Seven days you shall celebrate for God your God at the place that God will choose, because God your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and you will be completely joyful. \*

Three times in a year all your males shall appear to the face of God your God at the place that he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread and at the Festival of Weeks and at the Festival of Huts. And he shall not appear to the face of God emptily,

{every} man according to the giving of his hand, according to the blessing of God your God that he has given to you. \*

You shall set for yourself judges and officers within all your gates that God your God is giving to you, from your tribes, and they shall judge the people {with} righteous judgment.

You shall not twist a judgment; you shall not recognize a face and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Righteousness, righteousness you shall pursue, so that you will live and possess the land that God your God is giving to you. \*

You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah, any pole, beside the altar of God your God, which you shall make for yourself.

And you shall not erect for yourself a pillar, which God your God hates. \*