Deuteronomy 16:1-17

“Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the

month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night. 2And you shall

offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God, from the flock or the herd, at the

place that the Lord will choose, to make his name dwell there. 3

You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of af-

fliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life

you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. 4 No leaven shall

be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the flesh that you

sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning. 5

You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving

you, 6 but at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell in it,

there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, at the time you

came out of Egypt. 7 And you shall cook it and eat it at the place that the Lord your

God will choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. 8 For six days

you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assem-

bly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work on it.

9 “You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle

is first put to the standing grain. 10Then 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. 11And 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 towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among

you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.

12You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe

these statutes. 13 “You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the pro-

duce from your threshing floor and your winepress. 14 You shall rejoice in your feast, you

and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite,

the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. 15 For seven

days you shall keep the feast to the Lord your God at the place that the Lord will

choose, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the

work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful. 16 “Three times a year all your

males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place 12 that he will choose:

at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the

Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed. 17 Every man

shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given

you.