1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto
_the_LORD_Jehovah thy God: for in the month of Abib
_the_LORD_Jehovah thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto
_the_LORD_Jehovah thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which
_the_LORD_Jehovah 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_Jehovah thy God giveth thee:
6 But at the place which
_the_LORD_Jehovah 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_Jehovah 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_Jehovah 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_Jehovah 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_Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee:
11 And thou shalt rejoice before
_the_LORD_Jehovah 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_Jehovah 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_Jehovah thy God in the place which
_the_LORD_Jehovah shall choose:
because
_the_LORD_Jehovah 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_Jehovah 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_Jehovah empty:
17 Every man
shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of
_the_LORD_Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee.
18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which
_the_LORD_Jehovah 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_Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of
_the_LORD_Jehovah thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
22 Neither shalt thou set thee up
any image; which
_the_LORD_Jehovah thy God hateth.