Liber Deuteronomii, 16

1. Observa mensem Abib, ut facias Pascha Domino Deo tuo; quoniam in isto mense Abib eduxit te Dominus Deus tuus de Aegypto nocte.

1. "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.

2. Immolabisque Pascha Domino Deo tuo de ovibus et de bobus in loco, quem elegerit Dominus Deus tuus, ut habitet nomen eius ibi.

2. And you shall offer the passover sacrifice to the LORD your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place which the LORD will choose, to make his name dwell there.

3. Non comedes cum eo panem fermentatum; septem diebus comedes absque fermento afflictionis panem, quoniam festinanter egressus es de Aegypto, ut memineris diei egressionis tuae de Aegypto omnibus diebus vitae tuae.

3. You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction -- for you came out of the land of Egypt in hurried flight -- that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.

4. Non apparebit fermentum in omnibus terminis tuis septem diebus; et non manebit de carnibus eius, quod immolatum est vespere in die primo, usque mane.

4. No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days; nor shall any of the flesh which you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning.

5. Non poteris immolare Pascha in qualibet urbium tuarum, quas Dominus Deus tuus daturus est tibi,

5. You may not offer the passover sacrifice within any of your towns which the LORD your God gives you;

6. sed in loco, quem elegerit Dominus Deus tuus, ut habitet nomen eius ibi, immolabis Pascha vespere ad solis occasum, quando egressus es de Aegypto.

6. but at the place which the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the passover sacrifice, in the evening at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt.

7. Et coques et comedes in loco, quem elegerit Dominus Deus tuus, maneque consurgens vades in tabernacula tua.

7. And you shall boil it and eat it at the place which the LORD your God will choose; and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

8. Sex diebus comedes azyma et in die septimo, quia collecta est Domino Deo tuo, non facies opus.

8. For six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God; you shall do no work on it.

9. Septem hebdomadas numerabis tibi ab ea die, qua falcem in segetem miseris,

9. "You shall count seven weeks; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.

10. et celebrabis diem festum Hebdomadarum Domino Deo tuo, oblationem spontaneam manus tuae, quam offeres iuxta benedictionem Domini Dei tui.

10. Then 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;

11. Et epulaberis coram Domino Deo tuo tu, filius tuus et filia tua, servus tuus et ancilla tua et Levites, qui est intra portas tuas, advena ac pupillus et vidua, qui morantur tecum in loco, quem elegerit Dominus Deus tuus, ut habitet nomen eius ibi;

11. and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place which the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.

12. et recordaberis quoniam servus fueris in Aegypto custodiesque ac facies, quae praecepta sunt.

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

13. Sollemnitatem quoque Tabernaculorum celebrabis per septem dies, quando collegeris de area et torculari fruges tuas;

13. "You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, when you make your ingathering from your threshing floor and your wine press;

14. et epulaberis in festivitate tua tu, filius tuus et filia, servus tuus et ancilla, Levites quoque et advena, pupillus ac vidua, qui intra portas tuas sunt.

14. you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.

15. Septem diebus Domino Deo tuo festa celebrabis in loco, quem elegerit Dominus, quia benedicet tibi Dominus Deus tuus in cunctis frugibus tuis et in omni opere manuum tuarum, erisque totus in laetitia.

15. For seven days you shall keep the feast to the LORD your God at the place which 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. Tribus vicibus per annum apparebit omne masculinum tuum in conspectu Domini Dei tui in loco, quem elegerit: in sollemnitate Azymorum et in sollemnitate Hebdomadarum et in sollemnitate Tabernaculorum. Non apparebit ante Dominum vacuus,

16. "Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place which 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. sed offeret unusquisque secundum quod habuerit, iuxta benedictionem Domini Dei tui, quam dederit tibi.

17. every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you.

18. Iudices et praefectos operum constitues in omnibus portis tuis, quas Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi per singulas tribus tuas, ut iudicent populum iusto iudicio.

18. "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

19. Non declinabis iudicium. Non accipies personam nec munera, quia munera excaecant oculos sapientum et mutant causas iustorum.

19. You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality; and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

20. Iustitiam, iustitiam persequeris, ut vivas et possideas terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi.

20. Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.

21. Non plantabis tibi palum, omnem arborem iuxta altare Domini Dei tui, quod feceris tibi.

21. "You shall not plant any tree as an Ashe'rah beside the altar of the LORD your God which you shall make.

22. Neque constitues lapidem, quem odit Dominus Deus tuus.

22. And you shall not set up a pillar, which the LORD your God hates.