Deuteronomy · Literal Standard Version
Deuteronomy 16 Literal Standard Version
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1 “Observe the month of Abib, and you have made a Passover to your God YHWH, for in the month of Abib your God YHWH has brought you out of Egypt by 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 have sacrificed a Passover to your God YHWH, of the flock and of the herd, in the place which YHWH chooses to cause His Name to 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 do not eat any fermented thing with it; [for] seven days you eat unleavened things with it, bread of affliction (for you have come out of the land of Egypt in haste), so that you remember the day of your coming out of the land of Egypt 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 and leaven is not seen with you in all your border [for] seven days, and there does not remain [any] of the flesh which you sacrifice at evening on the first day until morning.
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 are not able to sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which your God YHWH is giving to you,
5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you;
6 except at the place which your God YHWH chooses to cause His Name to dwell—there you sacrifice the Passover in the evening, at the going in of the sun, the season of your coming out of 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 have cooked and eaten in the place on which your God YHWH fixes, and have turned in the morning and gone to your tents;
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 eat unleavened things, and on the seventh day [is] a restraint to your God YHWH; you 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 number seven weeks for yourself; you begin to number seven weeks from the beginning of the sickle among the standing grain,
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 have observed the Celebration of Weeks to your God YHWH, a tribute of a free-will offering of your hand, which you give as your God YHWH blesses you.
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 have rejoiced before your God YHWH, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your handmaid, and the Levite who [is] within your gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] in your midst, in the place which your God YHWH chooses to cause His Name to 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 have remembered that you have been a servant in Egypt, and have observed and done these statutes.
12 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.
13 You observe the Celebration of Shelters for yourself [for] seven days, in your ingathering of your threshing-floor and of your wine-vat;
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 have rejoiced in your celebration, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your handmaid, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, 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 celebrate before your God YHWH in the place which YHWH chooses, for your God YHWH blesses you in all your increase and in every work of your hands, and you have been only rejoicing.
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 in a year all of your males appear before your God YHWH in the place which He chooses: in the Celebration of Unleavened Things, and in the Celebration of Weeks, and in the Celebration of Shelters; and they do not appear before YHWH 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 each [gives] according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of your God YHWH, which He has given to you.
17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you.
18 You set for yourself judges and authorities within all your gates which your God YHWH is giving to you, for your tribes; and they have judged the people [with] a righteous 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 You do not turn aside judgment; you do not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
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 Righteousness—you pursue righteousness, so that you live and have possessed the land which your God YHWH is giving 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 do not plant an Asherah of any trees for yourself near the altar of your God YHWH, which you make for yourself,
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 and you do not raise up any standing image for yourself which your God YHWH is hating.”
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."
… thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then return and offer thy gift." We are bound, therefore, to offer to God the first-fruits of His creation, as Moses also says, "Thou shalt not appear in the presence of the Lord thy God empty;" so that man, being accounted as grateful, by those things in which he has shown …