Deuteronomy
Chapter 16
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1Keep the month of Aviv, and keep a The meal that remembers the night Yahweh passed over Israel’s houses in Egypt. to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, for in the month of Aviv God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
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Aviv is the month name as written. Pesach is the Passover.
2You shall sacrifice the The meal that remembers the night Yahweh passed over Israel’s houses in Egypt. to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, from the flock and the herd, in the place that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. chooses to make his name dwell.
3You shall not eat leaven with it. Seven days you shall eat Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. bread with it, bread of affliction, for in haste you came out of the land of Egypt, so that you remember the day of your coming out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
4No leavening shall be seen with you in all your border for seven days, and none of the meat that you sacrifice in the evening on the first day shall remain overnight until morning.
5You may not sacrifice the The meal that remembers the night Yahweh passed over Israel’s houses in Egypt. in one of your gates that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you.
6But at the place that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God chooses to make his name dwell, there you shall sacrifice the The meal that remembers the night Yahweh passed over Israel’s houses in Egypt. in the evening, as the sun goes down, the appointed time of your coming out of Egypt.
7You shall boil it and eat it in the place that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.
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Bishshalta is you shall boil it. The verb is not changed to “roast.”
8Six days you shall eat Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. bread, and on the seventh day there is a closing assembly to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God. You shall do no work.
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Atzeret is a closing assembly, a holding back from work. Matzot is unleavened bread.
9Seven weeks you shall count for yourself. From when the sickle begins in the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.
10You shall keep the feast of weeks to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, with a free gift of your hand that you give, according as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God blesses you.
11You shall rejoice before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, the Levite who is in your gates, and the A person living in a land that is not their own., the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God chooses to make his name dwell.
12You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall keep and do these Rules that are meant to last..
13The feast of booths you shall keep for yourself seven days, when you gather in from your Beating cut grain so the seeds fall loose. floor and from your wine vat.
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Sukkot is booths, as in Leviticus.
14You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, the Levite, the A person living in a land that is not their own., the fatherless, and the widow who are in your gates.
15Seven days you shall keep the feast to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God in the place that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. chooses, because God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God will bless you in all your yield and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be only rejoicing.
16Three times in the year all your males shall appear before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God in the place that he chooses: at the feast of Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. bread, at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of booths. They shall not appear before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. empty.
17Each man according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God that he has given you.
18Judges and officials you shall appoint for yourself in all your gates that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with a right judgment.
19You shall not bend judgment. You shall not recognize a face. You shall not take a Money paid so that someone will do wrong., for a Money paid so that someone will do wrong. blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the right.
20Rightness, rightness you shall pursue, so that you live and take possession of the land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you.
21You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah, any tree, beside the altar of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God that you make for yourself.
22You shall not set up for yourself a standing stone, which God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God hates.