Devarim, starting at chapter 16
{16:1} Observe the month of Aviv, and keep the Pesach to the LORD
your God; for in the month of Aviv the LORD your God brought you forth
out of Mitzrayim by night. {16:2} You shall sacrifice the Pesach to
the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the
LORD shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. {16:3} You shall
eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat [1>]matzah[<1]
therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the
land of Mitzrayim in haste: that you may remember the day when you
came forth out of the land of Mitzrayim 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 Pesach within any of your gates, which the LORD your God
gives you; {16:6} but at the place which the LORD your God shall
choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the
Pesach at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you
came forth out of Mitzrayim. {16:7} You shall roast and eat it in the
place which the LORD your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the
morning, and go to your tents. {16:8} Six days you shall eat
[2>]matzah[<2]; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to
the LORD 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 the LORD your God with a tribute of a
freewill-offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as the
LORD your God blesses you: {16:11} and you shall rejoice before the
LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your
man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your
gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are
in the midst of you, in the place which the LORD your God shall
choose, to cause his name to dwell there. {16:12} You shall remember
that you were a bondservant in Mitzrayim: and you shall observe and do
these statutes. {16:13} You shall keep the feast of booths 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 man-servant, and your
maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless,
and the widow, who are within your gates. {16:15} Seven days shall you
keep a feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall
choose; because the LORD 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 the
LORD your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of
[3>]matzah[<3], and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths;
and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: {16:17} every man
shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your
God which he has given you. {16:18} Shofetim and officers shall you
make you in all your gates, which the LORD 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 the LORD your God gives you. {16:21}
You shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the
altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make you. {16:22} Neither
shall you set yourself up a pillar; which the LORD your God hates.
{17:1} You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox, or a
sheep, in which is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is an
abomination to the LORD your God. {17:2} If there be found in the
midst of you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives
you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of the
LORD 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 host 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 Yisra'el, {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 the LORD your God shall choose; {17:9} and you
shall come to the [1>]Kohanim[<1] 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 the
LORD 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 [2>]Kohen[<2]
who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the
judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from
Yisra'el. {17:13} All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
presumptuously. {17:14} When you are come to the land which the LORD
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
the LORD 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 Mitzrayim, to the end that he may
multiply horses; because the LORD 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
[3>]Kohanim[<3] 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
the LORD 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 [4>]mitzvah[<4], 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 Yisra'el.
{18:1} The [1>]Kohanim[<1] the Levites, [even] all the tribe of
Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Yisra'el: they shall
eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
{18:2} They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: the LORD
is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them. {18:3} This shall be
the [2>]Kohanim[<2]' due from the people, from those who offer a
sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the
[3>]Kohen[<3] 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
the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to
minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever. {18:6} If
a Levite come from any of your gates out of all Yisra'el, where he
sojourns, and come with all the desire of his soul to the place which
the LORD shall choose; {18:7} then he shall minister in the name of
the LORD his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there
before the LORD. {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 the LORD 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 the LORD:
and because of these abominations the LORD your God does drive them
out from before you. {18:13} You shall be perfect with the LORD your
God. {18:14} For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to
those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD
your God has not allowed you so to do. {18:15} The LORD 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 the LORD your God in Horev in the day of the assembly,
saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither
let me see this great fire any more, that I not die. {18:17} The LORD
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 the LORD
has not spoken? {18:22} when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD,
if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which the
LORD has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you
shall not be afraid of him.
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Footnotes:
[1] {16:3} unleavened bread
[2] {16:8} unleavened bread
[3] {16:16} unleavened bread
[1] {17:9} priests
[2] {17:12} priest
[3] {17:18} priests
[4] {17:20} commandment
[1] {18:1} priests
[2] {18:3} priests
[3] {18:3} priest
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