The Father's Passover Feast
16 1 Observe the month of Aviv and keep the Passover to your Father, for in the month of Aviv your Father brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 Sacrifice the Passover to your Father, from the flock and the herd, at the place your Father will choose to make his name dwell there. 1 1 v2 The place where the Father chose to set his name pointed ahead to the day his children would worship him anywhere, in spirit and truth, through Jesus. 3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of affliction—because you came out of the land of Egypt in haste—so that all the days of your life you may remember the day you came out of Egypt. 4 No yeast shall be found among you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain overnight. 5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your towns that your Father is giving you, 6 but at the place that your Father will choose to make his name dwell, there you shall sacrifice the Passover, in the evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt. 7 You shall cook it and eat it at the place that your Father will choose, and in the morning you may go back to your tents. 8 For six more days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to your Father; you shall do no work.
The Feast of Weeks
9 You shall count seven weeks; begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. 10 Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to your Father, bringing a freewill offering from your hand as your Father has blessed you. 11 And you shall rejoice before your Father—you, your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite within your towns, and the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you—at the place that your Father will choose to make his name dwell there. 12 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to keep these statutes.
The Feast of Booths
13 You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths for seven days, when you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your winepress. 2 2 v13 Booths: temporary shelters made from branches, recalling Israel's years of wandering in the wilderness. 14 You shall rejoice in your feast—you, your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. 15 For seven days you shall keep the feast to your Father at the place that he will choose, because he will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful. 16 Three times a year all your men shall appear before your Father at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. And they shall not appear before him empty-handed. 17 Each man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of your Father that he has given you.
Judges and Righteous Justice
18 You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that your Father is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. 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 twists the words of the righteous. 20 Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue, that you may live and inherit the land that your Father is giving you.
Worship Your Father Alone
21 You shall not plant for yourself any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of your Father that you shall build. 22 And you shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar, which your Father hates.