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The
Feasts of Passover, of Weeks, and of Booths |
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Deuteronomy 16:1
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"Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the
Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought
you out of Egypt by night. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:2 |
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You shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD
your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where the LORD chooses to establish
His name. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:3 |
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You shall not eat leavened bread with it; seven
days you shall eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction (for you
came out of the land of Egypt in haste), so that you may remember all the days
of your life the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:4 |
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For seven days no leaven shall be seen with
you in all your territory, and none of the flesh which you sacrifice on the evening
of the first day shall remain overnight until morning. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:5 |
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You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover
in any of your towns which the LORD your God is giving you; |
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| Deuteronomy 16:6 |
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but at the place where the LORD your God chooses
to establish His name, you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset,
at the time that you came out of Egypt. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:7 |
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You shall cook and eat it in the place which
the LORD your God chooses. In the morning you are to return to your tents. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:8 |
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Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and
on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God; you
shall do no work on it. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:9 |
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"You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you
shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to
the standing grain. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:10 |
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Then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks
to the LORD your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which
you shall give just as the LORD your God blesses you; |
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| Deuteronomy 16:11 |
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and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God,
you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite
who is in your town, and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in
your midst, in the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His name. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:12 |
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You shall remember that you were a slave in
Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:13 |
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"You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths seven
days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat; |
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| Deuteronomy 16:14 |
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and you shall rejoice in your feast, you and
your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite and
the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in your towns. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:15 |
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Seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the
LORD your God in the place which the LORD chooses, because the LORD your God will
bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will
be altogether joyful. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:16 |
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"Three times in a year all your males shall
appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of
Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they
shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:17 |
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Every man shall give as he is able, according
to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:18 |
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"You shall appoint for yourself judges and officers
in all your towns which the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes,
and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:19 |
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You shall not distort justice; you shall not
be partial, and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the
wise and perverts the words of the righteous. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:20 |
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Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue,
that you may live and possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:21 |
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"You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah
of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make
for yourself. |
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| Deuteronomy 16:22 |
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You shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar
which the LORD your God hates. |
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