Deuteronomy 16
Reading Deuteronomy chapter 16 in the Darby Bible, public-domain text from 1890.
Verses 1–10
1 Keep the month of Abib, and celebrate the passover to Jehovah thyGod; for in the month of Abib Jehovah thyGod brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
2 And thou shalt sacrifice the passover to Jehovah thyGod, of the flock and of the herd, in the place which Jehovah will choose to cause his name to dwell there.
3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread along with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread with it, 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.
4 And there shall be no leaven seen with thee in all thy borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst at even on the first day, be left over night until the morning. —
5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover in one of thy gates, which Jehovah thyGod giveth thee;
6 but at the place that Jehovah thyGod will choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the time that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
7 And thou shalt cook and eat it at the place which Jehovah thyGod will choose; and in the morning shalt thou turn and go unto thy tents.
8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is a solemn assembly to Jehovah thyGod; thou shalt do no work.
9 Seven weeks shalt thou count: from the beginning of putting the sickle into the corn shalt thou begin to count seven weeks.
10 And thou shalt hold the feast of weeks to Jehovah thyGod with a tribute of a voluntary-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, according as Jehovah thyGod hath blessed thee;
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