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Deuteronomy 16

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Moses Appoints Leaders 1:9–18
The Twelve Spies 1:19–46
Spies Sent Out 1:19–25
Israel’s Rebellion 1:26–33
Israel’s Penalty 1:34–40
The Defeat at Hormah 1:41–46
The Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites 2:1–23
The Defeat of Sihon 2:24–37
Land Division East of the Jordan 3:12–22
Moses Forbidden to Cross the Jordan 3:23–29
An Exhortation to Obedience 4:1–40
The Cities of Refuge 4:41–43
Conclusion 4:44–49
Moses’ Second Address: The Terms of the Covenant 5:1–26:19
Remembering Mount Sinai 5:1–33
The Ten Commandments 5:5–21
Moses Mediates Between God and Israel 5:22–33
The Greatest Commandment 6:1–25
God will Fight for Israel 7:12–26
God has Provided All 8:1–20
Remember the Golden Calf 9:7–29
The Specific Stipulations 12:1–26:19
Israel’s Worship 12:1–16:17
One Place for Worship 12:1–28
Do Not Inquire about Other Nations gods 12:29–32
Idolatrous Cities to be Destroyed 13:12–18
Clean and Unclean Animals 14:1–21
Tithing to the Tabernacle 14:22–29
Release of Hebrew Servants 15:12–18
Firstborn Animals 15:19–23
The Pilgrimage Festivals 16:1–17
The Feast of Tabernacles 16:13–17
Israel’s Leaders 16:18–18:22
Judges and Justice 16:18–20
Forbidden Forms of Worship 16:21–17:7
Forbidden Locations 16:21–22

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1 Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

2 You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.

3 You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.

4 No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.

5 You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.

6 You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.

7 And you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.

8 For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.

9 You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.

10 And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,

11 and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

12 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes.

13 You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.

14 And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

15 For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.

16 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

17 Everyone must appear with a gift as he is able, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you.

18 You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

19 Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

20 Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

21 Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,

22 and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

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