Deuteronomy 16

Passover

1 "Observe the i month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for j in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God, from the flock or k the herd, l at the place that the Lord will choose, to make his name dwell there. 3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. m Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction - for you came out of the land of Egypt n in haste - that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. 4 o No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, p nor shall any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning. 5 You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, 6 but at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt. 7 And you shall cook it and eat it at the place that the Lord your God will choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. 8 For q six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be r a solemn assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work on it.

The Feast of Weeks

9 s "You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. 10 Then you shall keep t the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with u the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give v as the Lord your God blesses you. 11 And w you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there. 12 x You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

The Feast of Booths

13 y "You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress. 14 z You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. 15 For a seven days you shall keep the feast to the Lord your God at the place that the Lord will choose, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.

16 b "Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. c They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed. 17 Every man d shall give as he is able, v according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.

Justice

18 "You shall appoint e judges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. 19 f You shall not pervert justice. g You shall not show partiality, h and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous. 20 Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Forbidden Forms of Worship

21 "You shall not plant any tree as i an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make. 22 And you shall not set up a pillar, which the Lord your God hates.

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 16:1 - 8
    Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
    Exodus 12:2 - 39
    This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 13:4
    Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out.
    Exodus 34:18
    You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.
  3. Cross References
    Numbers 28:19
    But offer a food offering, a burnt offering to the Lord : two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; see that they are without blemish.
  4. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 12:5
    But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 13:6
    Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord.
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 12:11
    In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord 's Passover.
    Isaiah 52:12
    For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
  7. Cross References
    Exodus 13:7
    Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory.
  8. Cross References
    Exodus 34:25
    You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning.
  9. Cross References
    Exodus 13:6
    Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord.
  10. Cross References
    Leviticus 23:8
    But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.
    Leviticus 23:36
    For seven days you shall present food offerings to the Lord. On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly; you shall not do any ordinary work.
  11. Cross References
    Exodus 23:16
    You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.
    Exodus 34:22
    You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.
    Leviticus 23:15
    You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering.
    Numbers 28:26
    On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.
    Acts 2:1
    When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.
  12. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 8:13
    As the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts - the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.
  13. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 26:1 - 11
    When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it.
  14. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 12:15
    However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.
    1 Corinthians 16:2
    On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.
  15. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 12:7
    And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
    Deuteronomy 12:12
    And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.
    Deuteronomy 12:18
    But you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place that the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake.
    Deuteronomy 14:26
    And spend the money for whatever you desire - oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.
    Nehemiah 8:9 - 12
    And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep." For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.
  16. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 5:15
    You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
  17. Cross References
    Exodus 23:16
    You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.
    Leviticus 23:34
    Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord.
  18. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 16:11
    And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.
    Nehemiah 8:9 - 12
    And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep." For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.
  19. Cross References
    Leviticus 23:39
    On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
  20. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 31:11
    When all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
    Exodus 23:14
    Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.
    Exodus 23:17
    Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.
    Exodus 34:23
    Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.
  21. Cross References
    Exodus 23:15
    You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed.
  22. Cross References
    Ezekiel 46:5
    And the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.
    Ezekiel 46:11
    At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah.
    2 Corinthians 8:12
    For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
  23. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 16:10
    Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the Lord your God blesses you.
  24. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:16
    And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.
    Numbers 11:16
    Then the Lord said to Moses, "Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.
    Joshua 1:10
    And Joshua commanded the officers of the people.
    1 Chronicles 23:4
    Twenty-four thousand of these," David said, "shall have charge of the work in the house of the Lord, 6,000 shall be officers and judges.
    1 Chronicles 26:29
    Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were appointed to external duties for Israel, as officers and judges.
  25. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 27:19
    "'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due...
    Exodus 23:2
    You shall not fall in with the many to do evil,...
    Exodus 23:6
    You shall not pervert the justice due to your p...
    Isaiah 10:2
    To turn aside the needy from justice and to rob...
    Amos 5:12
    For I know how many are your transgressions and...
    Leviticus 19:15
    You shall do no injustice in court. You shall n...
    Deuteronomy 24:17
    You shall not pervert the justice due to the so...
  26. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:17
    You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.
  27. Cross References
    Exodus 23:8
    And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
  28. Cross References
    Exodus 34:13
    You shall tear down their altars and break thei...
    Judges 6:25
    That night the Lord said to him, "Take your fat...
    1 Kings 14:15
    The Lord will strike Israel as a reed is shaken...
    1 Kings 16:33
    And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to prov...
    2 Kings 13:6
    Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins...
    2 Kings 17:16
    And they abandoned all the commandments of the ...
    2 Chronicles 33:3
    For he rebuilt the high places that his father ...
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