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 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 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 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 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy
God giveth thee:
6 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 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 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 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 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 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 And
thou shalt remember that thou wast
a bondman in Egypt:
and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after
that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
14 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 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 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 Every
man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy
God which he hath given thee.
18 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 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 That
which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou
mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee.
21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the
altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make
thee.
22 Neither
shalt thou set thee up any image; which the
LORD thy God hateth.