Dabarym (Deuteronomy) — 16
Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread
1 In honor of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, celebrate the Pasakh (Passover) each year in the early spring, in the month of Abib, for that was the month in which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH brought you out of Mitzraym by night.
2 Your Pasakh sacrifice may be from either the flock or the herd, and it must be sacrificed to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH at the designated place of worship, the place 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH chooses for his Name to be honored.
3 Eat it with bread made without yeast. For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast, as when you escaped from Mitzraym in such a hurry. Eat this bread, the bread of suffering so that as long as you live you will remember the day you departed from Mitzraym.
4 Let no yeast be found in any house throughout your land for those seven days. And when you sacrifice the Pasakh lamb on the evening of the first day, do not let any of the meat remain until the next morning.
5 You may not sacrifice the Pasakh in just any of the towns that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH will give you.
6 You must offer it only at the designated place of worship, the place 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH chooses for his name to be honored. Sacrifice it there in the evening as the sun goes down on the anniversary of your exodus from Mitzraym.
7 Roast the lamb and eat it in the place 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH chooses. Then you may go back to your tents the next morning.
8 For the next six days you may not eat any bread made with yeast. On the seventh day proclaim another Qadash day in honor of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, and no work may be done on that day.
The Festival of Harvest
9 “Count off seven weeks from when you first begin to cut the grain at the time of harvest.
10 Then celebrate the Festival of Harvest to honor 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH. Bring him a voluntary offering in proportion to the Barakah you have received from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.
11 This is a time to celebrate before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH at the designated place of worship he will choose for His Name to be honored. Celebrate with your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Lauym from your towns, and the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you.
12 Remember that you were once slaves in Mitzraym, so be careful to obey all these decrees.
The Festival of Shelters
13 “You must observe the Festival of Shelters for seven days at the end of the harvest season, after the grain has been threshed and the grapes have been pressed.
14 This festival will be a happy time of celebrating with your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Lauym, foreigners, orphans, and widows from your towns.
15 For seven days you must celebrate this festival to honor 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH at the place 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH chooses, for it is 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH who barak you with bountiful harvests and gives you success in all your work. This festival will be a time of great joy for all.
16 “Each year every man in Yashar'AL must celebrate these three festivals: the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Harvest, and the Festival of Shelters. On each of these occasions, all men must appear before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH at the place HE chooses, but they must not appear before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH without a gift for Him.
17 All must give as they are able, according to the Barakah given to them by 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH.
Justice for the People
18 “Appoint judges and officials for yourselves from each of your tribes in all the towns 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH is giving you. They must judge the people fairly.
19 You must never twist justice or show partiality. Never accept a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and corrupt the decisions of the righteous.
20 Let true justice prevail, so you may live and occupy the land that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH is giving you.
21 “You must never set up a wooden Asharah pole beside the altar you build for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH.
22 And never set up sacred pillars for worship, for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH hates them.