1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover for Yahweh your God, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
2And you shall sacrifice the Passover offering to Yahweh your God, from the flock and the herd, at the place where Yahweh will choose to make his name dwell there.
3You shall not eat anything leavened with it. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of affliction — for in haste you came out of the land of Egypt — so that you may remember the day of your going out from the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
4And no leaven shall be seen with you throughout all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the flesh that you sacrifice in the evening on the first day remain overnight until morning.
5You are not permitted to sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates that Yahweh your God is giving you,
6but only at the place where Yahweh your God will choose to make his name dwell — there you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at the appointed time of your going out from Egypt.
7And you shall cook it and eat it at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.
8Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly for Yahweh your God; you shall do no work.
9You shall count off seven weeks for yourself; from the time the sickle begins on the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.
10And you shall keep the Feast of Weeks for Yahweh your God with the measure of the freewill offering of your hand that you give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you.
11And you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God — you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst — at the place where Yahweh your God will choose to make his name dwell there.
12And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall keep and do these statutes.
13You shall keep the Feast of Booths for yourself for seven days, when you gather in from your threshing floor and from your winepress.
14And you shall rejoice in your feast — you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are within your gates.
15For seven days you shall keep the feast for Yahweh your God at the place that Yahweh will choose, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
16Three times in the year every male among you shall appear before the face of 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 none shall appear before the face of Yahweh empty-handed.
17Each man according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given you.
18You shall appoint for yourself judges and officers in all your gates that Yahweh your God is giving you, throughout your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
19You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
20Righteousness, righteousness you shall pursue, so that you may live and take possession of the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.
21You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah of any tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God that you make for yourself.
22And you shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar, which Yahweh your God hates.
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