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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 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../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="../topmenuchap/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="../">NIV</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 class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/deuteronomy/16.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The Passover</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Observe the month of Aviv and celebrate the Passover of the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Sacrifice as the Passover to the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the <span class="name">Lord</span> will choose as a dwelling for his Name. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until morning.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God gives you <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or down, at the time of day">a</a></sup></span> of your departure from Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Roast it and eat it at the place the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly to the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God and do no work.</p> <p class="sectionhead">The Festival of Weeks</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Count off seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God has given you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And rejoice before the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and follow carefully these decrees.</p> <p class="sectionhead">The Festival of Tabernacles</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Be joyful at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For seven days celebrate the festival to the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God at the place the <span class="name">Lord</span> will choose. For the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Three times a year all your men must appear before the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the <span class="name">Lord</span> empty-handed: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God has blessed you.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Judges</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the innocent. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God is giving you.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Worshiping Other Gods</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole beside the altar you build to the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and do not erect a sacred stone, for these the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God hates.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>down, at the time of day</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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