1: Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover
unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee
forth out of Egypt by night.
2: Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the
passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which
the LORD shall choose to place his name there.
3: Thou shalt eat no
leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith,
even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in
haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land
of Egypt all the days of thy life.
4: And there shall be no leavened
bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there anything
of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night
until the morning.
5: Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within
any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
6: But at the
place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt
sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that
thou camest forth out of Egypt.
7: And thou shalt roast and eat it in
the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the
morning, and go unto thy tents.
8: Six days thou shalt eat unleavened
bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God:
thou shalt do no work therein.
9: Seven weeks shalt thou number unto
thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put
the sickle to the corn.
10: And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks
unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which
thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath
blessed thee:
11: And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God,
thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant,
and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless,
and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath
chosen to place his name there.
12: And thou shalt remember that thou
wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
13: Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after
that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
14: And thou shalt
rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant,
and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the
widow, that are within thy gates.
15: Seven days shalt thou keep a
solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose:
because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the
works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
16: Three
times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place
which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of
weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the
LORD empty:
17: Every man shall give as he is able, according to the
blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
18: Judges and
officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
19: Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons,
neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the
words of the righteous.
20: That which is altogether just shalt thou
follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee.
21: Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near
unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
22:
Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.