Deuteronomy 16 · Parashot Reeh–Shoftim

Observe the month of Aviv, and keep the passover to the Lord thy God: for in the month of Aviv the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Miżrayim by night.

Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover to the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there.

Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Miżrayim in haste: that thou mayst remember the day when thou camest out of the land of Miżrayim all the days of thy life.

And there shall be no leaven seen with thee in all thy border for seven days; nor shall any thing of the meat, which thou dost sacrifice on the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.

Thou mayst not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God gives thee:

but only at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season when thou camest out of Miżrayim.

And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go to thy tents.

Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work.

Seven weeks shalt thou number to thee: from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn shalt thou commence to number seven weeks.

And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks to the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, according as the Lord thy God has blessed thee:

and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite who is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God has chosen as the residence of his name.

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Miżrayim: therefore thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

Thou shalt observe the feast of booths seven days, after thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:

and thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast to the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy produce, and in all the work of thy hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.

Three times a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy 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 booths: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty:

every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he has given thee.

Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God gives thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a bribe: for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

Justice, only justice shalt thou pursue, that thou mayst live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God gives thee.

Thou shalt not plant thee an ashera of any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Neither shalt thou set thee up any pillar; which the Lord thy God hates.