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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 Legacy Standard Bible</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="../">LSB</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/deuteronomy/16.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">The Passover</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Keep the month of Abib and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>celebrate the Passover to Yahweh your God, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And you shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where Yahweh chooses for His name to dwell. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You shall not eat leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), so that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. <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 flesh which you sacrifice on 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 in any of your gates <i>of the towns</i> which Yahweh your God is giving you; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>but at the place where Yahweh your God chooses for His name to dwell, there you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the appointed time that you came out of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And you shall cook and eat <i>it</i> in the place which Yahweh 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>Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work <i>on it</i>. <p class="hdg">The Feast of Weeks</p><p><p class="reg"><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 begin to put the sickle to the standing grain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then you shall <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>celebrate the Feast of Weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give just as Yahweh your God blesses you; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and you shall be glad before Yahweh your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female slaves and the Levite who is within your gates and the sojourner and the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place where Yahweh your God chooses for His name to dwell. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes. <p class="hdg">The Feast of Booths</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“You shall <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>celebrate the Feast of Booths seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and you shall be glad in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female slaves and the Levite and the sojourner and the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>orphan and the widow who are within your gates. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Seven days you shall celebrate a feast to Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether glad. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Three times in a year all your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty-handed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Every man <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which He has given you. <p class="hdg">Do Not Distort Justice</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“You shall appoint for yourself judges and officers in all your gates <i>of the towns</i> which Yahweh 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 <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>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>Righteousness! Righteousness, you shall pursue, that you may live and possess the land which Yahweh your God is giving you. <p class="reg"><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">[†]</a></span>Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourself. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And you shall not set up for yourself a <i>sacred</i> pillar which Yahweh your God hates.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Lit <i>do</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>do</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i>fatherless</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Lit <i>do</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i>fatherless</i><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> Lit <i>according to the gift of his hand</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Lit <i>regard persons</i><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> A wooden symbol of a female deity<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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