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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Deuteronomy 16</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/deuteronomy/16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//deuteronomy/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/deuteronomy/">Deuteronomy</a> > Deuteronomy 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../deuteronomy/15.htm" title="Deuteronomy 15">◄</a> Deuteronomy 16 <a href="../deuteronomy/17.htm" title="Deuteronomy 17">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/deuteronomy/16.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/16.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/deuteronomy/16.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/16.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/deuteronomy/16.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/16.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/deuteronomy/16.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../exodus/12.htm#14">Exodus 12:14–28</a>; <a href ="../leviticus/23.htm#4">Leviticus 23:4–8</a>; <a href ="../numbers/28.htm#16">Numbers 28:16–25</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Observe the month of Abib<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning. <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work. <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">The Feast of Weeks<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../numbers/28.htm#26">Numbers 28:26–31</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes. <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">The Feast of Tabernacles<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../numbers/29.htm#12">Numbers 29:12–40</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you. <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete. <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> the Feast of Weeks,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> and the Feast of Tabernacles.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Everyone must appear with a gift as he is able, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">Judges and Justice <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment. <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. <A name="22"></a><p class="hdg">Forbidden Forms of Worship<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <i>Abib</i><span class="thin"> </span> was the first month of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar, usually occurring within the months of March and April; twice in this verse.<br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> That is, Shavuot; see footnotes for verse 16.<br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>Booths</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>Shelters</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see footnotes for verse 16.<br><span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> That is, the seven-day period after the Passover during which no leaven may be eaten; see <a href="../exodus/12.htm#14">Exodus 12:14–20</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> That is, Shavuot, the late spring feast of pilgrimage to Jerusalem; it is also known as <i>the Feast of Harvest</i><span class="thin"> </span> (see <a href="../exodus/23.htm#16">Exodus 23:16</a>) or <i>the Feast of Pentecost</i><span class="thin"> </span> (see <a href="../acts/2.htm">Acts 2:1</a>).<br><span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> That is, Sukkot, the autumn feast of pilgrimage to Jerusalem; also translated as <i>the Feast of Booths</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>the Feast of Shelters</i><span class="thin"> </span> and originally called <i>the Feast of Ingathering</i><span class="thin"> </span> (see <a href="../exodus/23.htm#16">Exodus 23:16</a> and <a href="../exodus/34.htm#22">Exodus 34:22</a>).<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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