Deuteronomy · Catholic Public Domain Version
Deuteronomy 16 Catholic Public Domain Version
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1 “Observe the month of new grain, at the beginning of springtime, so that you may accomplish the Passover to the Lord your God. For in this month, the Lord your God led you away from Egypt in the night.
1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
2 And you shall immolate the Passover to the Lord your God, from sheep and from oxen, in the place which the Lord your God will choose, so that his name may dwell there.
2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
3 You shall not eat it with leavened bread. For seven days you shall eat, without leaven, the bread of affliction. For you departed from Egypt in fear. So may you remember the day of your departure from Egypt, throughout all the days of your life.
3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
4 No leaven shall be present in all your confines for seven days. And by morning, there shall not remain any of the flesh which was immolated on the first day in the evening.
4 No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the meat, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.
5 You cannot immolate the Passover in any of your cities, which the Lord your God will give to you, that you wish,
5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you;
6 but only in the place which the Lord your God will choose, so that his name may dwell there. You shall immolate the Passover in the evening, upon the setting of the sun, which is the time when you departed from Egypt.
6 but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt.
7 And you shall cook and eat it in the place which the Lord your God will choose, and, rising up in the morning, you shall go into your tent.
7 You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.
8 For six days, you shall eat unleavened bread. And on the seventh day, because it is the assembly of the Lord your God, you shall do no work.
8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work.
9 You shall number for yourself seven weeks from that day, the day on which you put the sickle to the grain field.
9 You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.
10 And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks, to the Lord your God, with a voluntary oblation from your hand, which you shall offer according to the blessing of the Lord your God.
10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a free will offering of your hand, which you shall give according to how Yahweh your God blesses you.
11 And you shall feast in the sight of the Lord your God: you, your son and your daughter, your man servant and your woman servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the new arrival as well as the orphan and the widow, who abide with you, in the place which the Lord your God will choose, so that his name may dwell there.
11 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
12 And you shall recall that you were a servant in Egypt. And you shall preserve and carry out the things that have been instructed.
12 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.
13 Likewise, you shall celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days, when you will have gathered your fruits from the orchard and the winepress.
13 You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press.
14 And you shall feast at the time of your festival: you, your son and daughter, your man servant and woman servant, likewise the Levite and the new arrival, the orphan and the widow, who are within your gates.
14 You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.
15 For seven days you shall celebrate feasts to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord will choose. And the Lord your God will bless you in all your crops, and in every work of your hands. And you shall be joyful.
15 You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
16 Three times a year, all your males shall appear in the sight the Lord your God in the place which he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles. No one shall appear before the Lord empty.
16 Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.
17 But each one shall offer according to what he will have, according to the blessing of the Lord his God, which he will give to him.
17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you.
18 You shall appoint judges and magistrates at all your gates, which the Lord your God will give to you, throughout each of your tribes, so that they may judge the people with a just judgment,
18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
19 and not so as to show favoritism to either side. You shall not accept a person’s reputation, nor gifts. For gifts blind the eyes of the wise and alter the words of the just.
19 You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
20 You shall justly pursue what is just, so that you may live and possess the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
21 You shall not plant a sacred grove, nor shall you plant any tree near the altar of the Lord your God;
21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.
22 you shall neither make nor set up for yourself a statue. These things the Lord your God hates.”
22 Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Exodus 34:18; Exodus 13:4; Numbers 28:16; Exodus 12:2–20; Leviticus 23:5
- 2 Deuteronomy 12:5; Deuteronomy 12:26; 1 Corinthians 5:7; Matthew 26:17; Luke 22:15
- 3 Exodus 12:39; Exodus 12:19–20; Exodus 34:18; Luke 22:19; Exodus 12:14–15
- 4 Exodus 34:25; Exodus 12:10; Exodus 13:7; Exodus 12:15; Exodus 12:8
- 5 Deuteronomy 16:2; Deuteronomy 12:5–6
- 6 Matthew 26:20; Exodus 12:6–9; Hebrews 9:26; 1 Peter 1:19–20; Deuteronomy 12:5
- 7 2 Chronicles 35:13; Psalm 22:14–15; John 2:13; John 2:23; Deuteronomy 16:6
- 8 Exodus 12:15–16; Numbers 28:17–19; Leviticus 23:6–8; Leviticus 23:36; Exodus 13:6–8
- 9 Exodus 34:22; Exodus 23:16; Acts 2:1; Deuteronomy 16:10; Leviticus 23:15–16
- 10 1 Corinthians 16:2; 2 Corinthians 9:5–11; 2 Corinthians 8:10; Leviticus 25:26; Leviticus 5:7
- 11 Deuteronomy 12:12; Deuteronomy 12:7; Deuteronomy 12:18; Philippians 4:4; Romans 5:11
- 12 Deuteronomy 15:15; Deuteronomy 16:15; Lamentations 3:19–20; Ephesians 2:1–3; Romans 6:17–18
- 13 John 7:2; Exodus 23:16; 2 Chronicles 5:3; Leviticus 23:34–36; Numbers 29:12–40
- 14 Nehemiah 8:9–12; Deuteronomy 16:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:16; Isaiah 12:1–6; Isaiah 25:6–8
- 15 Deuteronomy 30:16; Leviticus 23:36–42; Deuteronomy 16:10; Deuteronomy 7:13; Deuteronomy 28:8–12
- 16 Proverbs 3:9–10; Psalm 96:8; Haggai 1:9; Exodus 23:14–17; Matthew 2:11
- 17 2 Corinthians 9:6–7; 2 Corinthians 8:12; Deuteronomy 16:10; Mark 12:41–44; Leviticus 27:8
- 18 1 Chronicles 23:4; Deuteronomy 1:15–17; Romans 13:1–6; 1 Chronicles 26:29; Deuteronomy 21:2
- 19 Leviticus 19:15; Exodus 23:2; Proverbs 17:23; Deuteronomy 24:17; Habakkuk 1:4
- 20 Philippians 4:8; Ezekiel 18:9; Ezekiel 18:5; Micah 6:8; Deuteronomy 4:1
- 21 2 Chronicles 33:3; 2 Kings 17:16; Exodus 34:13; 2 Kings 21:3; 1 Kings 14:15
- 22 Leviticus 26:1; Exodus 20:4; Jeremiah 44:4; Revelation 2:15; Deuteronomy 12:31
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… the passover within any other of thy cities which the Lord God gives thee; but in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose that His name be called on there, thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, towards the setting of the sun."
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