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DeuteronomyWEB
Deuteronomy 16:1WEB
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 16:2WEB
You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 16:3WEB
You 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.
Deuteronomy 16:4WEB
No 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.
Deuteronomy 16:5WEB
You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you;
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 16:6WEB
but at the place which Yahweh your God 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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 16:7WEB
You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 16:8WEB
Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 16:9WEB
You 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.
Deuteronomy 16:10WEB
You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a free will offering of your hand, which you shall give according to how Yahweh your God blesses you.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 16:11WEB
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: 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 Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 16:12WEB
You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.
Deuteronomy 16:13WEB
You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press.
Deuteronomy 16:14WEB
You 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.
Deuteronomy 16:15WEB
You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 16:16WEB
Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God 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 Yahweh empty.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 16:17WEB
Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 16:18WEB
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 16:19WEB
You 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.
Deuteronomy 16:20WEB
You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 16:21WEB
You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 16:22WEB
Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.