Deuteronomy · Clementine Vulgate
Deuteronomy 16 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Observa mensem novarum frugum, et verni primum temporis, ut facias Phase Domino Deo tuo: quoniam in isto mense eduxit te Dominus Deus tuus de Ægypto nocte.
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 Immolabisque Phase Domino Deo tuo de ovibus, et de bobus, in loco quem elegerit Dominus Deus tuus, ut habitet nomen ejus ibi.
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 Non comedes in eo panem fermentatum: septem diebus comedes absque fermento afflictionis panem, quoniam in pavore egressus es de Ægypto: ut memineris diei egressionis tuæ de Ægypto, omnibus diebus vitæ tuæ.
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 Non apparebit fermentum in omnibus terminis tuis septem diebus, et non remanebit de carnibus ejus, quod immolatum est vespere in die primo, usque mane.
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 Non poteris immolare Phase in qualibet urbium tuarum, quas Dominus Deus tuus daturus est tibi,
5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you;
6 sed in loco quem elegerit Dominus Deus tuus, ut habitet nomen ejus ibi: immolabis Phase vespere ad solis occasum, quando egressus es de Ægypto.
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 Et coques, et comedes in loco quem elegerit Dominus Deus tuus, maneque consurgens vades in tabernacula tua.
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 Sex diebus comedes azyma: et in die septima, quia collecta est Domini Dei tui, non facies opus.
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 Septem hebdomadas numerabis tibi ab ea die qua falcem in segetem miseris.
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 Et celebraris diem festum hebdomadarum Domino Deo tuo, oblationem spontaneam manus tuæ, quam offeres juxta benedictionem Domini Dei tui:
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 et epulaberis coram Domino Deo tuo, tu, filius tuus et filia tua, servus tuus et ancilla tua, et Levites qui est intra portas tuas, advena ac pupillus et vidua, qui morantur vobiscum: in loco quem elegerit Dominus Deus tuus, ut habitet nomen ejus ibi.
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 Et recordaberis quoniam servus fueris in Ægypto: custodiesque ac facies quæ præcepta sunt.
12 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.
13 Solemnitatem quoque tabernaculorum celebrabis per septem dies, quando collegeris de area et torculari fruges tuas:
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 et epulaberis in festivitate tua, tu, filius tuus et filia, servus tuus et ancilla, Levites quoque et advena, pupillus et vidua qui intra portas tuas sunt.
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 Septem diebus Domino Deo tuo festa celebrabis in loco quem elegerit Dominus: benedicetque tibi Dominus Deus tuus in cunctis frugibus tuis, et in omni opere manuum tuarum, erisque in lætitia.
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 Tribus vicibus per annum apparebit omne masculinum tuum in conspectu Domini Dei tui in loco quem elegerit: in solemnitate azymorum, in solemnitate hebdomadarum, et in solemnitate tabernaculorum. Non apparebit ante Dominum vacuus:
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 sed offeret unusquisque secundum quod habuerit juxta benedictionem Domini Dei sui, quam dederit ei.
17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you.
18 Judices et magistros constitues in omnibus portis tuis, quas Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi, per singulas tribus tuas: ut judicent populum justo judicio,
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 nec in alteram partem declinent. Non accipies personam, nec munera: quia munera excæcant oculos sapientum, et mutant verba justorum.
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 Juste quod justum est persequeris: ut vivas, et possideas terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi.
20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
21 Non plantabis lucum, et omnem arborem juxta altare Domini Dei tui.
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 Nec facies tibi, neque constitues statuam: quæ odit Dominus Deus tuus.
22 Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.
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Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (22)
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- 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 …