Deuteronomy 16
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"Observe the a month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for b in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
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"Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, from the flock and c the herd, in the d place where the LORD chooses to put His name.
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"You shall eat no leavened bread with it; e seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may f remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
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g "And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight remain overnight until h morning.
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"You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you;
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"but at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover i at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt.
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"And you shall roast and eat it j in the place which the LORD your God chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.
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"Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and k on the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work on it.
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"You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.
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"Then you shall keep the l Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give m as the LORD your God blesses you.
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n "You shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.
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o "And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.
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p "You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.
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"And q you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates.
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r "Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.
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s "Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and t they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.
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"Every man shall give as he is able, u according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you.
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"You shall appoint v judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
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w "You shall not pervert justice; x you shall not show partiality, y nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
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"You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may z live and inherit the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
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a "You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the LORD your God.
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b "You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
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Exodus 12:2
This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
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Exodus 13:4
On this day you are going out, in the month Abib.
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Numbers 28:19
And you shall present an offering made by fire as a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year. Be sure they are without blemish.
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Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go.
Deuteronomy 12:26
Only the holy things which you have, and your vowed offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.
Deuteronomy 15:20
You and your household shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD chooses.
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Numbers 29:12
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.
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Exodus 13:3
And Moses said to the people: "Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out of this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
Deuteronomy 4:9
Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren.
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Exodus 13:7
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters.
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Numbers 9:12
They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break one of its bones. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it.
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Exodus 12:7 - 10
And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
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2 Kings 23:23
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was held before the LORD in Jerusalem.
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Exodus 12:16
On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat - that only may be prepared by you.
Exodus 13:6
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
Leviticus 23:8
'But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.'"
Leviticus 23:36
For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.
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Exodus 34:22
And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.
Leviticus 23:15
And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed.
Leviticus 23:16
Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the LORD.
Numbers 28:26
Also on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.
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1 Corinthians 16:2
On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come.
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Deuteronomy 16:14
And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates.
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Deuteronomy 15:15
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this thing today.
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Exodus 23:16
And the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.
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Nehemiah 8:9
And Nehemiah, who was the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn nor weep." For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Law.
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Leviticus 23:39 - 41
Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath- rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath- rest.
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Exodus 23:14 - 17
Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year:
Exodus 34:22 - 24
And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.
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Exodus 23:15
You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before Me empty).
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Leviticus 14:30
And he shall offer one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, such as he can afford -
Leviticus 14:31
Such as he is able to afford, the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, with the grain offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before the LORD.
Deuteronomy 16:10
Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the LORD your God blesses you.
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Exodus 23:1 - 8
You shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Deuteronomy 1:16
Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, 'Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him.
Deuteronomy 1:17
'You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man's presence, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.'
John 7:24
"Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment."
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Exodus 23:2
You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.
Exodus 23:6
You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute.
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Deuteronomy 1:17
'You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man's presence, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.'
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Exodus 23:8
And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.
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Ezekiel 18:5 - 9
But if a man is just And does what is lawful and right.
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Exodus 34:13
But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images
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Leviticus 26:1
You shall not make idols for yourselves; neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.
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