Deuteronomy 16 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

The Passover Reviewed

The Three Appointed Feasts

(Ex. 12:1–20; 23:14–19; 34:18–26 )

Deu 16:1“Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

Deu 16:2

Deu 16:2“Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, from the flock and the herd, in the place where the LORD chooses to put His name.

Deu 16:3

Deu 16:3“You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

Deu 16:4

Deu 16:4“And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight remain overnight until morning.

Deu 16:5

Deu 16:5“You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you;

Deu 16:6

Deu 16:6“but at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt.

Deu 16:7

Deu 16:7“And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

Deu 16:8

Deu 16:8“Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work on it.

The Feast of Weeks Reviewed

(Ex. 34:22; Lev. 23:15–21; Num. 28:26–31 )

Deu 16:9

Deu 16:9“You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.

Deu 16:10

Deu 16:10“Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the LORD your God blesses you.

Deu 16:11

Deu 16:11“You shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.

Deu 16:12

Deu 16:12“And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

The Feast of Tabernacles Reviewed

(Lev. 23:33–43; Num. 29:12–40 )

Deu 16:13

Deu 16:13“You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.

Deu 16:14

Deu 16:14“And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates.

Deu 16:15

Deu 16:15“Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.

Deu 16:16

Deu 16:16“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.

Deu 16:17

Deu 16:17“Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you.

Justice Must Be Administered

Deu 16:18

Deu 16:18“You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

Deu 16:19

Deu 16:19“You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

Deu 16:20

Deu 16:20“You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

Deu 16:21

Deu 16:21“You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the LORD your God.

Deu 16:22

Deu 16:22“You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

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