Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 16
{16:1} Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh
your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth
out of Egypt by night. {16:2} You shall sacrifice the Passover to
Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh
shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. {16:3} You shall eat
no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread
therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the
land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came
forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. {16:4} There
shall be no yeast seen with you in all your borders seven days;
neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at
even, remain all night until the morning. {16:5} You may not sacrifice
the Passover within any of your gates, which Yahweh your God gives
you; {16:6} but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to
cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at
even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth
out of Egypt. {16:7} You shall roast and eat it in the place which
Yahweh your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and
go to your tents. {16:8} Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and
on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you
shall do no work [therein]. {16:9} Seven weeks shall you number to
you: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain
shall you begin to number seven weeks. {16:10} You shall keep the
feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill
offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your
God blesses you: {16:11} and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God,
you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your
female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the
foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of
you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his
name to dwell there. {16:12} You shall remember that you were a
bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.
{16:13} You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you
have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:
{16:14} and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and
your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the
Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are
within your gates. {16:15} Seven days shall you keep a feast to Yahweh
your God in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your
God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your
hands, and you shall be altogether joyful. {16:16} Three times in a
year shall all your males appear before Yahweh your 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 tents; and they shall not appear
before Yahweh empty: {16:17} every man shall give as he is able,
according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you.
{16:18} Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates,
which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they
shall judge the people with righteous judgment. {16:19} You shall not
wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a
bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the
words of the righteous. {16:20} That which is altogether just shall
you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your
God gives you. {16:21} You shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind
of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make you.
{16:22} Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh your
God hates.
{17:1} You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep,
in which is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is an abomination
to Yahweh your God. {17:2} If there be found in the midst of you,
within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or
woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in
transgressing his covenant, {17:3} and has gone and served other gods,
and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the
sky, which I have not commanded; {17:4} and it be told you, and you
have heard of it, then shall you inquire diligently; and behold, if it
be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in
Israel, {17:5} then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, who
has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman;
and you shall stone them to death with stones. {17:6} At the mouth of
two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to
death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
{17:7} The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to
death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away
the evil from the midst of you. {17:8} If there arise a matter too
hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and
plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy
within your gates; then shall you arise, and go up to the place which
Yahweh your God shall choose; {17:9} and you shall come to the priests
the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you
shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.
{17:10} You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they
shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you
shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:
{17:11} according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you,
and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do;
you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you,
to the right hand, nor to the left. {17:12} The man who does
presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister
there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall
die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel. {17:13} All the
people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. {17:14}
When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and
shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a
king over me, like all the nations that are round about me; {17:15}
you shall surely set him king over you, whom Yahweh your God shall
choose: one from among your brothers shall you set king over you; you
may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. {17:16}
Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to
return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because
Yahweh has said to you, You shall henceforth return no more that way.
{17:17} Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not
turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and
gold. {17:18} It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom,
that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of [that
which is] before the priests the Levites: {17:19} and it shall be with
him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may
learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and
these statutes, to do them; {17:20} that his heart not be lifted up
above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment,
to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his
days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
{18:1} The priests the Levites, [even] all the tribe of Levi, shall
have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the
offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and his inheritance. {18:2} They
shall have no inheritance among their brothers: Yahweh is their
inheritance, as he has spoken to them. {18:3} This shall be the
priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice,
whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the
shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. {18:4} The first fruits of
your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the
fleece of your sheep, shall you give him. {18:5} For Yahweh your God
has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the
name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever. {18:6} If a Levite comes
from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a
foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place
which Yahweh shall choose; {18:7} then he shall minister in the name
of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there
before Yahweh. {18:8} They shall have like portions to eat, besides
that which comes of the sale of his patrimony. {18:9} When you are
come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not
learn to do after the abominations of those nations. {18:10} There
shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter
to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices
sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, {18:11} or a charmer, or a
consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
{18:12} For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and
because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from
before you. {18:13} You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God. {18:14}
For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who
practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has
not allowed you so to do. {18:15} Yahweh your God will raise up to you
a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you
shall listen; {18:16} according to all that you desired of Yahweh your
God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again
the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any
more, that I not die. {18:17} Yahweh said to me, They have well said
that which they have spoken. {18:18} I will raise them up a prophet
from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his
mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
{18:19} It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words
which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. {18:20} But
the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I
have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of
other gods, that same prophet shall die. {18:21} If you say in your
heart, How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken? {18:22}
when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn't
follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the
prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.
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