CHAP. XVI.
1 A repetition of the Law touching the feast of the Passeover, and of unleavened bread: 9 Of Weekes or Pentecost: 13 Of Boothes or Taberna∣cles. 16 Every male must appeare, and offer accor∣ding to the gift of his hand, at these three feasts. 18 Of ordaining Iudges, & doing justice. 21 Groves and Pillars are forbidden.
OBserve the moneth of Abib, and [unspec 1] keep the Passeover unto Iehovah thy God: for in the moneth of Abib Iehovah thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. And thou shalt sacrifice the Passover unto Iehovah thy God, of the flocke [unspec 2] and the herd, in the place which Iehovah shall chuse, to cause his name to dwell there. Thou shalt not eat with it any leavened bread; seven dayes shalt thou eat with it unleavened [unspec 3] cakes, the bread of affliction: for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt, in haste; that thou mayest remember the day of thy com∣ming forth out of the land of Egypt, all the daies of thy life. And there shall not be seen [unspec 4] with thee any old leven in all thy coast, seven daies; neither shall any thing of the flesh which thou shalt sacrifice in the evening, in the first day, remaine all night, untill the morning. Thou mayest not sacrifice the Passeover with∣in [unspec 5] any of thy gates, which Iehovah thy God giveth thee. But at the place which Iehovah [unspec 6] thy God shall chuse, to cause his name to dwell, there thou shalt sacrifice the Passeover in the evening, about the going downe of the Sunne, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. And thou shalt boile [unspec 7] and eat, in the place which Iehovah thy God shall chuse: and thou shalt turne in the mor∣ning, and goe unto thy tents. Six daies thou [unspec 8] shalt eat unleavened cakes, and in the seventh day shall be a solemne assembly unto Iehovah thy God; thou shalt not doe any worke.
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee, [unspec 9] from beginning (to put) the sickle into the standing corne, thou shalt begin to number the seven weekes. And thou shalt observe [unspec 10] the feast of Weekes unto Iehovah thy God, with a tribute of a voluntary offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give, according as Ie∣hovah thy God hath blessed thee. And thou [unspec 11] shalt rejoyce before Iehovah thy God; thou, and thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite which is within thy gates, and the stran∣ger, and the fatherlesse, and the widow, which are in the midst of thee, in the place which Ie∣hovah thy God shall chuse, to cause his name to dwell there. And thou shalt remember [unspec 12] that thou wast a servant in Egypt, and thou shalt observe and doe these statutes.
Thou shalt observe unto thee the feast of [unspec 13] Boothes seven daies, when thou hast gathe∣red in of thy floore, and of thy wine-presse. And thou shalt rejoyce in thy feast; thou, and [unspec 14] thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy man∣servant, and thy maid-servant and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherlesse, and the widow, which are within thy gates. Seven [unspec 15] daies shalt thou keepe a feast unto Iehovah thy God, in the place which Iehovah shall chuse, because Iehovah thy God shall blesse thee, in all thy revenue, and in all the worke of thine hands; and thou shalt be surely joy∣full. Three times in a yeere shall every male [unspec 16] of thee appeare before Iehovah thy God, in