Deuteronomy:16:1-17

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* Keep the month of Abib , and celebrate the passover to Jehovah thy God ; for in the month of Abib Jehovah thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night . * And thou shalt sacrifice the passover to Jehovah thy God , of the flock and of the herd , in the place which Jehovah will choose to cause his name to dwell there . * Thou shalt eat no leavened bread along with it ; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread with it , bread of affliction ; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste , -- that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt , all the days of thy life . * And there shall be no leaven seen with thee in all thy borders seven days ; neither shall any of the flesh , which thou sacrificedst at even on the first day , be left over night until the morning . -- * Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover in one of thy gates , which Jehovah thy God giveth thee ; * but at the place that Jehovah thy God will choose , to cause his name to dwell in , there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even , at the going down of the sun , at the time that thou camest forth out of Egypt . * And thou shalt cook and eat it at the place which Jehovah thy God will choose ; and in the morning shalt thou turn and go unto thy tents . * Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread , and on the seventh day is a solemn assembly to Jehovah thy God ; thou shalt do no work . * Seven weeks shalt thou count : from the beginning of putting the sickle into the corn shalt thou begin to count seven weeks . * And thou shalt hold the feast of weeks to Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a voluntary-offering of thy hand , which thou shalt give , according as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee ; * and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God , thou , and thy son , and thy daughter , and thy bondman , and thy handmaid , and the Levite that is in thy gates , and the stranger , and the fatherless , and the widow that are in thy midst in the place that Jehovah thy God will choose to cause his name to dwell there . * And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt , and thou shalt keep and do these statutes . * The feast of tabernacles shalt thou hold seven days , when thou hast gathered in [the produce ] of thy floor and of thy winepress . * And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast , thou , and thy son , and thy daughter , and thy bondman , and thy handmaid , and the Levite , and the stranger , and the fatherless , and the widow , that are in thy gates . * Seven days shalt thou hold a feast to Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah will choose ; for Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy produce , and in all the work of thy hands , and thou shalt be wholly joyful . * Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he will choose , at the feast of unleavened bread , and at the feast of weeks , and at the feast of tabernacles ; and they shall not appear before Jehovah empty : * each [shall give ] according to that which is in his power to give , according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee .

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