◀- Deuteronomy 16
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The Feast of the Passover
(1) "Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.
(2) Therefore you shall sacrifice the passover to the LORD your God, from the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name.
(3) You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste, that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
(4) And there shall be no leavened bread seen with you in all your land for seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrificed the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.
(5) You may not sacrifice the passover within any of your gates, which the LORD your God gives you;
(6) But at the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place his name in, there you shall sacrifice the passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.
(7) And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.
(8) 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.
The Feast of Weeks
(9) You shall count for yourself seven weeks; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the corn.
(10) Then you shall keep the feast of weeks to the LORD your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give as the LORD your God has blessed you.
(11) You shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are among YOU, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place his name there.
(12) And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall observe and do these statutes.
The Feast of Tabernacles
(13) You shall observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after you have gathered in your corn and your wine.
(14) And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
(15) Seven days you shall keep a solemn feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose, because the LORD your God shall bless you in all your increase, and in all the works of your hands, therefore you shall surely rejoice.
Every Male Must Offer
(16) Three times in a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your 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-handed.
(17) Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you.
Judges and Justice
(18) You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
(19) You shall not distort judgment; you shall not respect persons, neither take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
(20) You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.