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The Book of Deuteronomy · The Tanakh
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1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahuah your Elohim; for in the month of Abib Yahuah your Elohim brought you out of Egypt by night. 2You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahuah your Elohim, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahuah shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. 3You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. 4No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the meat, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning. 5You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahuah your Elohim gives you; 6but at the place which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt. 7You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahuah your Elohim chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents. 8Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahuah your Elohim. You shall do no work. 9You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks. 10You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahuah your Elohim with a tribute of a free will offering of your hand, which you shall give according to how Yahuah your Elohim blesses you. 11You shall rejoice before Yahuah your Elohim: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. 12You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes. 13You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press. 14You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates. 15You shall keep a feast to Yahuah your Elohim seven days in the place which Yahuah chooses, because Yahuah your Elohim will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful. 16Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahuah your Elohim in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahuah empty. 17Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahuah your Elohim’s blessing which he has given you. 18You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahuah your Elohim gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. 19You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. 20You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahuah your Elohim gives you. 21You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahuah your Elohim’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves. 22Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahuah your Elohim hates.

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