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<i>instead,</i> for seven days you shall eat the Passover with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction (for you left the land of Egypt in haste); [do this] so that all the days of your life you may remember [thoughtfully] the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For seven days no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory, and none of the meat which you sacrificed the evening of the first day shall remain overnight until morning. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover [lamb] in any of your cities which the LORD your God is giving you; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>but at the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His Name (Presence), you shall sacrifice the Passover [lamb] in the evening at sunset, at the time that you came out of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a celebration to the LORD your God; so you shall do no work [on that day]. <p class="hdg">The Feast of Weeks</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then you shall celebrate the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give [to Him] just as the LORD your God blesses you; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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 within your [city] gates, and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are among you, at the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His Name (Presence). <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to obey these statutes. <p class="hdg">The Feast of Booths</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles) seven days, when you have gathered in [the grain] from your threshing floor and [the wine] from your wine vat. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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 within your city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Passover) and at the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) and at the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles), and they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Every man <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>shall give as he is able, in accordance with the blessing which the LORD your God has given you. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“You shall appoint judges and officers in all your cities (gates) which the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You shall pursue justice, <i>and only</i> justice [that which is uncompromisingly righteous], so that you may live and take possession of the land which the LORD your God is giving you. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“You shall not plant for yourself an <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[e]</a></span>Asherah of any kind of tree <i>or</i> wood beside the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You shall not set up for yourself a <i>sacred</i> pillar which the LORD your God hates.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>make His Name dwell</i> and so throughout the chapter.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Because yeast ferments and spreads throughout the dough, it was used symbolically to represent the spread of sin.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Also called the “Feast of Harvest” (Ex 23:16) or “day of first fruits” (Num 28:26). Later called “Pentecost” (Acts 2:1).<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> Lit <i>according to the gift of his hand.</i><br><span class="footnotesbot">[e]</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> I.e. a wooden symbol of a female deity which seems to have been wrongfully (and sinfully) linked with God.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../deuteronomy/15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Deuteronomy 15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../deuteronomy/17.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Deuteronomy 17"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 17" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>