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          DASV: Deuteronomy 16    

1 Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to LORD
your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought
you out of Egypt at night.
2 Sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, from the
flock or the herd, in the place that the LORD will choose
to make his name dwell there.
3 Do not eat it with leavened bread. For seven days eat
unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, for you came
out of the land of Egypt in haste; so that you may remember
the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the
days of your life.
4 No yeast should be seen anywhere in your land for seven days.
None of the meat that you sacrifice on the evening of the
first day should remain overnight until the next morning.

5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your towns
that the LORD your God is giving you.
6 But you must sacrifice the Passover only at the place that
the LORD your God will choose to make his name to dwell,
in the evening at sunset, on the anniversary of when you
came out of Egypt.
7 You must roast and eat it in the place the LORD your God
will choose. The next morning you may return to your tents.
8 Eat unleavened bread for six days and then on the seventh
day will be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, on it
you must not do any work.

9 Count off seven weeks from the time you began to use the sickle
to harvest the standing grain.
10 Then celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God by
contributing a freewill offering from your hand. You shall
give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you.
11 Rejoice before the LORD your God, you, your son, your
daughter, your male and female servants, the Levite who lives
in your towns, the foreigner, orphans and the widows who live
among you, in the place that the LORD your God will choose
to make his name dwell.
12 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful
to observe these statutes.

13 Keep the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days, after you have
harvested the produce from your threshing floor and your
wine press.
14 Rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male
and female servants, the Levites, the foreigners, the orphans
and the widows who live in your towns.
15 Celebrate the feast for seven days to the LORD your God in the
place the LORD will choose; because the LORD your God will bless
you in all your productivity, and in all the work of your hands,
and you should be absolutely joyful.

16 Three times in a year all your males must appear before the
LORD your God in the place he will choose: the Feast of
Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
No one is to appear before the LORD empty-handed.
17 Each of you must give as he is able, according to the blessing
the LORD your God has given you.

18 Appoint judges and officers in all your towns, the LORD your God
is giving you, according to your tribes; and they must judge
the people fairly.
19 You must not pervert justice. You must not show favoritism or
take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and corrupts
the words of the righteous.
20 Pursue only what is just, so that you may live, and inherit
the land the LORD your God is giving you.
21 Do not plant any kind of tree as an Asherah pole beside the
altar of the LORD your God, that you build for yourself.
22 Do not set up a sacred pillar, for the LORD your God hates them.

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