Deuteronomy:16:1-17

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* Observe the month of (note :)Read ( Exo_13:4 ).(:note ) Abib , and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God : for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night . * Thou shalt therefore (note :)You shall eat the Easter lamb .(:note ) sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God , of the flock and the herd , in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there . * Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it ; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith , [even ] the bread of (note :)Which signified the affliction which you had in Egypt .(:note ) 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 shalbe no leauen seene with thee in all thy coastes seuen dayes long : neither shall there remaine the night any of the flesh vntil the morning which thou offeredst ye first day at euen . * Thou mayest (note :)This was chiefly accomplished , when the temple was built .(:note ) not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates , which the LORD thy God giveth thee : * But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in , there thou shalt sacrifice the (note :)Which was instituted to remind them of their deliverance our of Egypt and to encourage them in the hope of Jesus Christ , of whom this lamb was a figure .(:note ) passover at even , at the going down of the sun , at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt . * And thou shalt roste &amp ; eate it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose , and shalt returne on the morowe , and goe vnto thy tentes . * Six daies shalt thou eate vnleauened bread , and ye seuenth day shall be a solemne assemblie to ye Lord thy God thou shalt do no worke therei n . * Seven weeks shalt thou (note :)Beginning the next morning after the Passover , ( Lev_23:15 ; Exo_13:4 ).(:note ) number unto thee : begin to number the seven weeks from [such time as ] thou beginnest [to put ] the sickle to the corn . * And thou shalt keepe the feast of weekes vnto the Lord thy God , euen a free gift of thine hand , which thou shalt giue vnto the Lorde thy God , as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee . * And thou shalt reioyce before the Lord thy God , thou and thy sonne , and thy daughter , and thy seruant , and thy maide , and the Leuite that is within thy gates , &amp ; the stranger , &amp ; the fatherles , and the widowe , that are among you , in the place which the Lorde thy God shall chuse to place his Name there , * And thou shalt remember that thou wast a seruant in Egypt : therefore thou shalt obserue and doe these ordinances . * Thou shalt (note :)That is , the 15th day of the seventh month , ( Lev_23:34 ).(:note ) observe the feast of tabernacles seven days , after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine : * And thou shalt reioyce in thy feast , thou , and thy sonne , and thy daughter , and thy seruant , &amp ; thy maid , &amp ; the Leuite , &amp ; the stranger , &amp ; the fatherlesse , and the widow , that are wtin thy gates . * Seuen daies shalt thou keepe a feast vnto the Lorde thy God in the place which the Lorde shall chuse : when the Lord thy God shall blesse thee in all thine increase , and in all the workes of thine hands , thou shalt in any case be glad . * Three times in the yeere shall all the males appeare before the Lorde thy God in the place which he shall chuse : in the feast of the vnleauened bread , and in the feast of the weekes , and in the feast of the Tabernacles : and they shall not appeare before the Lord emptie . * Every man [shall give ] as he is (note :)According to the ability that God has given him .(:note ) able , according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee .

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