Thematic Bible
Deuteronomy 16:1 (show verse)
"Observe the month of Abib, and you shall keep [the] Passover to Yahweh your God, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out from Egypt [by] night.
Deuteronomy 16:2 (show verse)
And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to Yahweh your God [from among] [your] flock and herd at the place that Yahweh will choose, to let his name dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16:3 (show verse)
You shall not eat {with it} anything leavened; seven days you shall eat {with it} unleavened bread of affliction, because in haste you went out from the land of Egypt, so that you will remember the day of your going out from the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
Deuteronomy 16:4 (show verse)
And leaven shall not be seen with you in any of your territory for seven days, and none of the meat that you will slaughter on the evening on the first day shall remain overnight until morning.
Deuteronomy 16:5 (show verse)
You are not allowed to offer the Passover sacrifice in one of your {towns} that Yahweh your God is giving to you,
Deuteronomy 16:6 (show verse)
but only at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, to let his name dwell there; you shall offer the Passover sacrifice {in the evening at sunset}, [at the] designated time of your going out from Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16:7 (show verse)
And you shall cook, and you shall eat [it] at the place that Yahweh your God will choose; and you may turn in the morning and go to your tents.
Deuteronomy 16:8 (show verse)
Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day [there shall be] an assembly for Yahweh your God; you shall not do work.
Deuteronomy 16:9 (show verse)
"You shall count [off] seven weeks for you; {from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain} you shall begin to count seven weeks.
Deuteronomy 16:10 (show verse)
And [then] you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks for Yahweh your God with the measure of the freewill offering of your hand that you shall give [just] as Yahweh your God has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 16:11 (show verse)
And you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite that [is] in your {towns} and the alien and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst in the place that Yahweh your God will choose to let his name dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16:12 (show verse)
And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and [so] {you shall diligently observe} these rules.
Deuteronomy 16:13 (show verse)
"You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths for yourselves seven days {at the gathering in of the produce} from your threshing floor and from your press;
Deuteronomy 16:14 (show verse)
and you shall rejoice at your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite and the orphan and the widow that [are] in your {towns}.
Deuteronomy 16:15 (show verse)
Seven days you shall celebrate [your] feast to Yahweh your God at the place Yahweh will choose, for Yahweh your God shall bless you in all of your produce and in all [of] the work of your hand, and you shall surely [be] rejoicing.
Deuteronomy 16:16 (show verse)
Three times in the year all [of] your males shall appear {before } Yahweh your God at the place that he will choose, 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.
Deuteronomy 16:17 (show verse)
Each [person] {shall give as he is able}, [that is], according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you.
Deuteronomy 16:18 (show verse)
"You shall appoint judges and officials for you in all your {towns} that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you throughout your tribes, and you shall render [for] the people {righteous judgments}.
Deuteronomy 16:19 (show verse)
You shall not subvert justice; you shall not {show partiality}; and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe makes blind [the] eyes of [the] wise and misrepresents [the] words of [the] righteous.
Deuteronomy 16:20 (show verse)
{Justice, only justice} you shall pursue, so that you may live, and you shall take possession of the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you.
Deuteronomy 16:21 (show verse)
You shall not plant for yourselves {an Asherah pole} beside the altar of Yahweh your God that you make for yourselves.
Deuteronomy 16:22 (show verse)
And you shall not set up for yourselves a stone pillar, [a thing] that Yahweh your God hates.