1 Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover in honor of Yahweh since it was in this month that Yahweh, your God, brought you out of Egypt by night.
2 On the Passover, you shall sacrifice oxen and sheep to Yahweh in the place he has chosen for his Name to dwell.
3 For the Passover supper, you are not to eat leavened bread, but for seven days, you shall eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt hastily. So you shall remember all the days of your life the day on which you left Egypt.
4 For seven days, no leaven shall be seen throughout your territory; nor shall any of the flesh you sacrificed on the evening of the first day be left for the following day.
5 You may not offer the Passover sacrifice in any city which Yahweh gives you,
6 but only in the place chosen by Yahweh as the dwelling place for his Name. Sacrifice the Passover in the evening, at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt.
7 You shall roast it and eat it in the place chosen by Yahweh, your God. And then, in the morning you shall return to your house.
8 You shall eat unleavened bread for six days, and on the seventh, you shall celebrate a solemn assembly in honor of Yahweh and you shall not work.
9 You shall count seven weeks, beginning from the day you start cutting the standing wheat.
10 Then you shall celebrate the Feast of the Seven Weeks for Yahweh, your God, making a voluntary offering from your harvest in proportion to the way Yahweh, your God, blesses you.
11 At the place Yahweh has chosen as the dwelling place for his Name, you shall feast, you and your children, your servants, the Levite who lives in your cities, the foreigner, the orphan and the widow who live among you.
12 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt and be careful to put these precepts into practice.
13 Celebrate too the Feast of the Tents for seven days, after gathering the produce of your threshing floor and of your winepress.
14 Rejoice during this feast - you and your children, your servants, the Levite, the foreigner, the orphan and the widow who live in your city.
15 You shall feast for seven days in honor of Yahweh at the place chosen by him; because Yahweh will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy may be complete.
16 Three times a year all your men shall present themselves before Yahweh, your God, in the place chosen by him: on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on the Feast of Weeks, and on the Feast of Tents. And you shall not present yourselves empty-handed,
17 but each one will offer in proportion to what he has, according to the blessing that Yahweh has bestowed upon you.
18 Appoint judges and secretaries for your tribes in every city which Yahweh gives you, that they may judge the people according to justice.
19 You shall not bend the law or show partiality. Do not accept gifts because gifts blind the eyes of the wise and subvert the cause of the righteous.
20 Justice! Seek justice if you want to live and inherit the land which Yahweh, your God, gives you.
21 Do not plant any tree or sacred pillar near the altar of your God.
22 Do not put up there the sacred stones that Yahweh hates.
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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