King James Version · full chapter
Deuteronomy 16
22 verses · King James Version
- 1Observe the month of 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.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:1
- 2Thou shalt therefore 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.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:2
- 3Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, the 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.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:3
- 4And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:4
- 5Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:5
- 6But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:6
- 7And thou shalt roast and eat in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:7
- 8Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no workCompare translations of Deuteronomy 16:8
- 9Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from thou beginnest the sickle to the corn.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:9
- 10And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:10
- 11And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:11
- 12And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:12
- 13Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:13
- 14And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that within thy gates.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:14
- 15Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:15
- 16Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:16
- 17Every man as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:17
- 18Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:18
- 19Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:19
- 20That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:20
- 21Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:21
- 22Neither shalt thou set thee up image; which the LORD thy God hateth.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 16:22