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Chapter 16
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Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto
the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy
God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. |
2
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Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the
LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which
the LORD shall choose to place his name there. |
3
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Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days
shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread
of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of
Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when
thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days
of thy life. |
4
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And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in
all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing
of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at
even, remain all night until the morning. |
5
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Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of
thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: |
6
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But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose
to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover
at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that
thou camest forth out of Egypt. |
7
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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 unto thy tents. |
8
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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 therein. |
9
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Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number
the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put
the sickle to the corn. |
10
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And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD
thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine
hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according
as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: |
11
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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 that 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 hath
chosen to place his name there. |
12
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And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt:
and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. |
13
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Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days,
after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine: |
14
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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. |
15
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Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD
thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because
the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase,
and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt
surely rejoice. |
16
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Three times in 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 tabernacles: and they shall not appear
before the LORD empty: |
17
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Every man shall give as he is able, according to the
blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee. |
18
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Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes:
and they shall judge the people with just judgment. |
19
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Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect
persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the
eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. |
20
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That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that
thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee. |
21
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Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto
the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. |
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Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD
thy God hateth. |
