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Chapter 16
1 Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that you may celebrate the phase to the Lord your God: because in this month the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
2 And you shall sacrifice the phase to the Lord your God, of sheep, and of oxen, in the place which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may dwell there.
3 You shall not eat with it leavened bread: seven days shall you eat without leaven, the bread of affliction, because you came out of Egypt in fear: that you may remember the day of your coming out of Egypt, all the days of your life.
4 No leaven shall be seen in all your coasts for seven days, neither shall any of the flesh of that which was sacrificed the first day in the evening remain until morning.
5 You may not immolate the phase in any one of your cities, which the Lord your God will give you:
6 But in the place which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may dwell there: you shall immolate the phase in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at which time you came out of Egypt.
7 And you shall dress, and eat it in the place which the Lord your God shall choose, and in the morning rising up you shall go into your dwellings.
8 Six days shall you eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day, because it is the assembly of the Lord your God, you shall do no work.
9 You shall number unto you seven weeks from that day, wherein you did put the sickle to the corn.
10 And you shall celebrate the festival of weeks to the Lord your God, a voluntary oblation of your hand, which you shall offer according to the blessing of the Lord your God.
11 And you shall feast before the Lord your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may dwell there:
12 And you shall remember that you were a servant in Egypt: and you shall keep and do the things that are commanded.
13 You shall celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered in your fruit of the barnfloor and of the winepress.
14 And you shall make merry in your festival time, you, your son, and your daughter, your manservant, and your maidservant, the Levite also and the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow that are within your gates.
15 Seven days shall you celebrate feasts to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord shall choose: and the Lord your God will bless you in all your fruits, and in every work of your hands, and you shall be in joy.
16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the Lord your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. No one shall appear with his hands empty before the Lord:
17 But every one shall offer according to what he has, according to the blessing of the Lord his God, which he shall give him.
18 You shall appoint judges and magistrates in all your gates, which the Lord your God shall give you, in all your tribes: that they may judge the people with just judgment,
19 And not go aside to either part. you shall not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just.
20 You shall follow justly after that which is just: that you may live and possess the land, which the Lord your God shall give you.
21 You shall plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord your God:
22 Neither shall you make nor set up to yourself a statue: which things the Lord your God hates.