Dual Panel1OBSERVE the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, for it was in that month that the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
2Slaughter an animal from flock or herd as a Passover victim to the LORD your God in the place which he will choose as a dwelling for his name.
3You must eat nothing leavened with it; for seven days you must eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you came out of Egypt in urgent haste. Thus as long as you live you are to commemorate the day of your coming out of Egypt.
4No leaven must be seen in all your territory for seven days, nor must any of the flesh which you have slaughtered in the evening of the first day remain overnight till morning.
5You may not slaughter the Passover victim in any of the settlements which the LORD your God is giving you,
6but only in the place which he will choose as a dwelling for his name; there you are to slaughter the Passover victim in the evening as the sun goes down, the time of your coming out of Egypt.
7Cook it and eat it in the place which the LORD your God will choose, and then next morning set off back to your tents.
8For six days you must eat unleavened loaves, and on the seventh day hold a closing ceremony in honour of the LORD your God; you must do no work.
9Seven weeks should be counted off: start counting them from the time when the sickle is put to the standing grain;
10then celebrate the pilgrim-feast of Weeks to the LORD your God and offer a freewill-offering in proportion to the blessing that the LORD your God has given you.
11Rejoice before the LORD your God, with your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, the Levites who live in your settlements, and the aliens, fatherless, and widows among you. Rejoice in the place which the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his name
12and keep in mind that you were slaves in Egypt. You are to be careful to observe all these statutes.
13After you bring in the produce from your threshing-floor and winepress, you are to celebrate the pilgrim-feast of Booths for seven days.
14Rejoice at your feast with your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, the Levites, aliens, fatherless, and widows living in your settlements.
15For seven days you are to celebrate this feast to the LORD your God in the place which he will choose, when the LORD your God gives you his blessing in all your harvest and in all your work; you shall keep the feast with joy.
16Three times a year all your males must come into the presence of the LORD your God in the place which he will choose: at the pilgrim-feasts of Unleavened Bread, of Weeks, and of Booths. No one may come into the presence of the LORD without an offering;
17each of you is to bring such a gift as he can in proportion to the blessing which the LORD your God has given you.
18In every settlement which the LORD your God is giving you, you must appoint for yourselves judges and officers, tribe by tribe, and they will dispense true justice to the people.
19You must not pervert the course of justice or show favour or accept a bribe; for bribery makes the wise person blind and the just person give a crooked answer.
20Justice, and justice alone, must be your aim, so that you may live and occupy the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
21Do not plant any kind of tree as a sacred pole beside the altar of the LORD your God which you will build,
22nor erect a sacred pillar; for all such are hateful to the LORD your God.