1 'Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover for Yahweh your God, because it was in the month of Abib that Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
2 You must sacrifice a Passover from your flock or herd for Yahweh your God in the place where Yahweh chooses to give his name a home.
3 You must not eat leavened bread with this; for seven days you must eat it with unleavened bread -- the bread of affliction -- since you left Egypt in great haste; this is so that, as long as you live, you will remember the day you came out of Egypt.
4 For seven days no leaven must be found in any house throughout your territory, nor must any of the meat that you sacrifice in the evening of the first day be kept overnight until the next day.
5 You must sacrifice the Passover not in any of the towns given you by Yahweh your God,
6 but in the place where Yahweh your God chooses to give his name a home; there you must sacrifice the Passover, in the evening at sunset, at the hour when you came out of Egypt.
7 You will cook it and eat it in the place chosen by Yahweh your God, and in the morning you must return and go to your tents.
8 For six days you will eat unleavened bread; on the seventh day there will be an assembly for Yahweh your God; and you must do no work.
9 'You must count seven weeks, counting these seven weeks from the time you begin to put your sickle into the standing corn.
10 You will then celebrate the feast of Weeks for Yahweh your God with the gift of a voluntary offering proportionate to the degree in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
11 You must rejoice in the presence of Yahweh your God, in the place where Yahweh your God chooses to give his name a home, you, your son and your daughter, your serving men and women, the Levite living in your community, the foreigner, the orphan and the widow living among you.
12 Remember that you were once a slave in Egypt, and carefully observe these laws.
13 'You must celebrate the feast of Shelters for seven days, at the time when you gather in the produce of your threshing-floor and winepress.
14 You must rejoice at your feast, you, your son and your daughter, your serving men and women, the Levite, the foreigner, the orphan and the widow living in your community.
15 For seven days, you must celebrate the feast for Yahweh your God in the place chosen by Yahweh; for Yahweh your God will bless you in all your produce and in all your undertakings, so that you will have good reason to rejoice.
16 'Three times a year all your menfolk must appear before Yahweh your God in the place chosen by him: at the feast of Unleavened Bread, at the feast of Weeks, at the feast of Shelters. No one must appear empty-handed before Yahweh,
17 but each must give what he can, in proportion to the blessing which Yahweh your God has bestowed on you.
18 'You must appoint judges and scribes in each of the towns that Yahweh your God is giving you, for all your tribes; these are to mete out proper justice to the people.
19 You must not pervert the law; you must be impartial; you will take no bribes, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and ruins the cause of the upright.
20 Strict justice must be your ideal, so that you may live long in possession of the country given you by Yahweh your God.
21 'You must not plant a sacred pole of any wood whatsoever beside the altar which you erect for Yahweh your God;
22 nor will you set up a standing-stone, a thing Yahweh your God would abhor.'
Versículos relacionados com Deuteronomy, 16:
Deuteronomy 16 is a chapter that establishes the instructions for the annual religious festivals of Israel, including Easter, the Feast of Bread Asmos and the Feast of the Week. Moreover, the principle of justice is emphasized through the indication of impartial judges and officers, as well as the prohibition of idolatry. Below are five verses related to these themes, excluding verses of Deuteronomy 16:
Proverbs 21:3: "Doing what is just and right is more acceptable to the Lord than offering sacrifices." This verse highlights the importance of justice and righteousness, values that are reinforced in Deuteronomy 16.
Psalm 82:2-4: "Until when you dismiss it, and do you respect the people of the wicked? Defend the poor and the orphan; do justice to the distress and the needy. Deliver the poor and needy; take them out of the hands of the wicked. . " This Psalm calls for justice and compassion for the underprivileged, a theme present in Deuteronomy 16.
Deuteronomy 17:8-10: "If there is a difficult question between homicide and murder, between cause and cause, between wound and wounded, in matters of dispute within your doors, then thou shalt rise and rise to the place that choosing the Lord thy God; And thou shalt come to the Levite priests, and to the judge in those days, and shall inquire; and shall announce the judgment of that judgment. And shall make the sentence that announce to you in the place that chooses the Lord; and shall take care to do according to all that you teach. " This verse complements the instruction on impartial judges in Deuteronomy 16, reinforcing the importance of justice in legal disputes.
2 Kings 23:5: "And he took the idolatrous priests that the kings of Judah had established to burn incense in the ups in the cities of Judah, and around Jerusalem; as well as those who burned incense to Baal, in the sun, and the moon , and to the planets, and to the whole army of heaven. " The prohibition of idolatry in Deuteronomy 16 is a theme that extends throughout the Bible, as in this example in 2 kings.
Leviticus 23:4-5: "These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, the sacred calls you will proclaim in the right time. In the first month of the year you will celebrate the Easter Feast." This verse mentions the feast of Easter, which is one of the religious festivals established in Deuteronomy 16.
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