 1 Observe the month Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God. For in the month of Abib, the Lord your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night. 2 You shall therefore sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place that the Lord will choose to place His name there. 3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of affliction, for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste, so that you may remember the day that you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. 4 There shall be no leavened bread seen with you in all your borders for seven days. Nor shall any of the flesh that you sacrificed in the first day at evening remain all night until the morning. 5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates that the Lord your God gives you, 6 but at the place that the Lord your God shall choose to place His name in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going of the sun, at the time that you came out of Egypt. 7 You shall roast and eat in the place that the Lord your God shall choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. 8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. And on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work. 9 You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time you began to put the sickle to the grain. 10 You shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with a measure of a free will offering of your hand that you shall give according as the Lord your God has blessed you. 11 You shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your slave girl, and the Levite inside your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, those among you, in the place that the Lord your God has chosen to place His name there. 12 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. And you shall be careful to do these statutes. 13 You shall keep the Feast of Tabernacles seven days after you have gathered in your grain floor and your wine press. 14 You shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male slave, and your slave girl, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow inside your gates. 15 Seven days you shall keep a solemn feast to the Lord your God in the place that the Lord shall choose. Because the Lord your God shall bless you in all your increase, and in all the works of your hands, therefore you shall surely rejoice. 16 Three times a year, all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place that He chooses for the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles. They shall not appear before the Lord empty. 17 But each with his gift in his hand according to the blessing of the Lord your God that He has given you. 18 You shall appoint judges and officers for yourself in all your gates that the Lord your God gives you, tribe by tribe. They shall judge the people with righteous judgment. 19 You shall not pervert judgment. You shall not respect persons nor take a gift. For a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. 20 You shall follow what is altogether just so that you may live and inherit the land that the Lord your God gives you. 21 You shall not set up for yourself pillars of any trees near the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make for yourself. 22 Nor shall you set up an image that the Lord your God hates.
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