The most sacred Bible, whiche is the Holy Scripture conteyning the Old and New Testament / translated into English, and newly recognised with great diligence after most faythful exemplars, by Rychard Taverner.

¶ Of Easter, whytsontyde, and the feast of taber∣nacles, what offycers ought to be ordeyned.

CAPI. XVI.

OBserue the moneth ofφ 1.1 Abyb, and offer passeouer vnto the Lorde thy God. For [ A] in the moneth of Abib,* 1.2 the Lorde thy God brought the out of Egypte by nyght. Thou shalt therfore offer passeouer vnto the Lorde thy God, and shepe & oxen in the place which the Lorde shal chose to make his name dwel there. Thou shalt eare no leuended bred therwith: but shalt eate therwith the bred of tribulacion .vij. dayes longe. For thou camest out of the lande of Egypte in hast, that thou mayst remembre the daye when thou camest oute of the lande of Egypte all dayes of thy lyfe.* 1.3 * 1.4 And se there be no leuended bred sene in all thy costes .vij. dayes longe, and that there remayne nothinge of the flesshe whiche thou haste offred, the firste daye at euen, vntyll the mornynge.

Thou mayste not offer passeouer in anye of [ B] thy cyties whiche the Lorde thy God gyueth the:* 1.5 but* 1.6 in the place whiche the Lorde thy God shall chose to make his name dwell in, there thou shalt offer passeouer at euen about the goynge downe of the sonne, euen in the season that thou camest out of Egypte. And thou shalt sethe and eate it in the place which the Lorde thy God hath chosen, and departe on the morow and get the vnto thy tent. Sir dayes thou shalt eate swete bred, and the .vij daye is for the people to come togither to the Lorde thy God, that thou maist do no worke.

Then reken the .vij. wekes,* 1.7 and begyn to re¦ken the .vij. wekes whē the sickel begynneth in the corne, and kept the feast of wekes vnto the Lorde thy God, that thou gyue a frewil-offringe of thyne hande vnto the Lorde thy God, accordinge as the Lorde thy God hath blessed the. And reioyse before the Lorde thy God both thou, thy sonne, thy doughter, thy seruaunt and thy mayde, and the Leuite that is within thy gates, and the straunger, the fa¦therlesse and the wydow that are among you, in the place which the Lorde thy God hathe chosen to make his name dwell there. And re¦membre thou wast a seruaunt in Egypt, that thou obserue and do these ordinaunces.

Thou shalt obserue the feast of tabernacles vij. dayes longe, after thou hast gathered in [ C] thy corne and thy wyne. And thou shalte re∣ioyse in that thy feaste, bothe thou thy sonne thy doughter, thy seruaunt, thy mayde, y^e Le∣uite, the straunger, the fatherlesse and the wy¦dowe that are in thy cyties.* 1.8 Seuen dayes thou shalt kepe holy daye vnto the Lorde thy God, in the place which the Lorde shall chose for the Lorde thy God shall blesse the in all thy frutes and in all the workes of thyne han¦des, and therfore shalte thou be gladde.

Thre tymes in the yere shall all youre males appeare before the Lord thy God in the place whiche he shall chose:* 1.9 In the feast of swete [ D] bred, in the feast of wekes, and in the feast of tabernacles. And they shall not appeare be∣fore the Lorde empty: but euery man with y^e gyfte of his hande, accordynge to the blessing of the Lorde thy God, which he hathe gyuen the.

* 1.10Iudges and officers thou shalt make the in all thy gates whiche the Lorde thy God gy∣ueth the,* 1.11 thorowe out thy trybes: & let them iudge the people righteously.* 1.12 Wrest not the lawe nor knowe any person neyther take any rewarde: for gyftes blynde the wyse and per∣uerte the wordes of the ryghteous. But in all thinge folowe righteousnesse,* 1.13 that thou mayste lyue and enioye the lande whiche the Lorde thy God gyueth the.

Thou shalt plant no groue of whatsoeuer trees it be, nyghe vnto the altare of the Lord thy God which thou shalte make the. Thou shalte set the vp no pyler, whiche the Lorde thy God hateth.

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