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go free from you. And when you send him and eat it in the place which the LORD your
away free from you, you shall not let him go God chooses, and in the morning you shall
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away empty-handed; you shall supply him lib- turn and go to your tents. Six days you shall
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erally from your flock, from your threshing eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day
floor, and from your winepress. From what the there shall be a sacred assembly to the LORD
LORD your God has blessed you with, you shall your God. You shall do no work on it.
give to him. You shall remember that you were 9 “You shall count seven weeks for yourself;
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a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your begin to count the seven weeks from the time
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God redeemed you; therefore I command you you begin to put the sickle to the grain. Then
this thing today. And if it happens that he says you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD
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to you, ‘I will not go away from you,’ because he your God with the tribute of a freewill offering
loves you and your house, since he prospers from your hand, which you shall give as the
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with you, then you shall take an awl and thrust LORD your God blesses you. You shall rejoice
it through his ear to the door, and he shall be before the LORD your God, you and your son
your servant forever. Also to your female ser- and your daughter, your male servant and
vant you shall do likewise. It shall not seem your female servant, the Levite who is within
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hard to you when you send him away free from your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and
you; for he has been worth a double hired ser- the widow who are among you, at the place
vant in serving you six years. Then the LORD where the LORD your God chooses to make His
your God will bless you in all that you do. name abide. And you shall remember that you
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19 “All the firstborn males that come from were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to
your herd and your flock you shall sanctify to observe these statutes.
the LORD your God; you shall do no work with 13 “You shall observe the Feast of Taber-
the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the first- nacles seven days, when you have gathered
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born of your flock. You and your household from your threshing floor and from your wine-
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shall eat it before the LORD your God year by press. And you shall rejoice in your feast, you
year in the place which the LORD chooses. and your son and your daughter, your male ser-
21 But if there is a defect in it, if it is lame or vant and your female servant and the Levite,
blind or has any serious defect, you shall not the stranger and the fatherless and the widow,
sacrifice it to the LORD your God. You may eat who are within your gates. Seven days you
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it within your gates; the unclean and the clean shall keep a sacred feast to the LORD your God
person alike may eat it, as if it were a gazelle or in the place which the LORD chooses, because
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a deer. Only you shall not eat its blood; you the LORD your God will bless you in all your
shall pour it on the ground like water. produce and in all the work of your hands, so
“Observe the month of Abib, and keep that you surely rejoice.
16 the Passover to the LORD your God, for in 16 “Three times a year all your males shall
the month of Abib the LORD your God brought appear before the LORD your God in the place
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you out of Egypt by night. Therefore you which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened
shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of
God, from the flock and the herd, in the place Tabernacles; and they shall not appear before
where the LORD chooses to put His name. You the LORD empty-handed. Every man shall give
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shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days as he is able, according to the blessing of the
you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, LORD your God which He has given you.
the bread of affliction (for you came out of the 18 “You shall appoint judges and officers in all
land of Egypt in haste), that you may remem- your gates, which the LORD your God gives
ber the day in which you came out of the land you, according to your tribes, and they shall
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of Egypt all the days of your life. And no leav- judge the people with just judgment. You
en shall be seen among you in all your territo- shall not pervert justice; you shall not show
ry for seven days, nor shall any of the meat partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds
which you sacrifice the first day at twilight the eyes of the wise and twists the words of
remain overnight until morning. the righteous. You shall follow what is alto-
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5 “You may not sacrifice the Passover within gether just, that you may live and inherit the
any of your gates which the LORD your God land which the LORD your God is giving you.
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gives you; but at the place where the LORD 21 “You shall not plant for yourself any tree,
your God chooses to make His name abide, as a wooden image, near the altar which you
there you shall sacrifice the Passover at twi- build for yourself to the LORD your God. You
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light, at the going down of the sun, at the time shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the LORD
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you came out of Egypt. And you shall roast your God hates.
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