Observe the month of Abib, and hold the  ¹Passover to Jehovah your God; for in the month of Abib Jehovah your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

And you shall sacrifice the passover to Jehovah your God, from the flock and from the herd, in the place where Jehovah will choose to cause His name to dwell.

You shall not eat anything leavened with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for in alarmed haste you came out of the land of Egypt); in order that you may remember the day of your coming out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

And leaven shall not be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the flesh which you sacrifice in the evening on the first day remain until morning.

You may not sacrifice the passover within any of your gates, which Jehovah your God is giving you;

Rather, in the place where Jehovah your God will choose to cause His name to dwell, you shall sacrifice the passover in the evening, as the sun sets, at the time that you came out of Egypt.

And you shall cook and eat it in the place which Jehovah your God will choose, and you shall turn in the morning and go to your tents.

Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. And on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to Jehovah your God; you shall not do any work.

You shall count off for yourself seven weeks. You shall begin to count the seven weeks from the time that you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.

And you shall hold the Feast of Weeks to Jehovah your God according to the sufficiency of the freewill offering of your hand, which you will give, as Jehovah your God blesses you.

And you and your son and daughter, and your male servant and female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst shall rejoice before Jehovah your God in the place where Jehovah your God will choose to cause His name to dwell.

And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall keep and do these statutes.

You shall hold the Feast of  ¹Tabernacles for seven days after your ingathering from your threshing floor and your winepress.

And you and your son and daughter, and your male servant and female servant, and the Levite and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are within your gates shall rejoice in your feast.

You shall keep the feast to Jehovah your God for seven days in the place which Jehovah will choose, for Jehovah your God will bless you in all your produce and in all your undertakings; therefore you shall be nothing but joyful.

Three times a year all your males shall appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles. And they shall not appear before Jehovah empty-handed;

Each man shall give as he is able to give, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God, which He has given you.

You shall appoint for yourself  ¹judges and officers  ²in all your cities which Jehovah your God is giving you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

You shall not distort justice; you shall not respect persons, nor shall you take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Righteousness, and only righteousness, shall you pursue, in order that you may live and possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.

You shall not plant for yourself an  ¹Asherah of any kind of tree beside the  ¹altar of Jehovah your God, which you will make for yourself;

Nor shall you erect for yourself a pillar, something which Jehovah your God hates.

You shall not sacrifice to Jehovah your God any ox or sheep in which there is a blemish, anything seriously wrong, for that is an abomination to Jehovah your God.

If there is found in your midst, within any of your gates which Jehovah your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of Jehovah your God by transgressing His covenant,

And has gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them, that is, to the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded you to do;

And it is told to you and you hear of it; then you shall investigate thoroughly. And if indeed the thing is true and certain — this abomination has been done in Israel —

Then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing, to your gates, that very man or woman, and you shall stone them with stones so that they die.

At the word of two witnesses or three witnesses shall he who is to die be put to death; he shall not be put to death at the word of only one witness.

The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from your midst.

If a case is too complicated for you to judge between one kind of homicide and another, or between one kind of civil suit and another, or between one kind of assault and another, being disputed cases within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which Jehovah your God will choose;

And you shall come to  ¹the Levitical priests and to the judge who is presiding in those days and investigate the matter; and they shall declare to you the sentence of judgment.

And you shall do according to the word of the sentence that they declare to you from that place which Jehovah will choose; and you shall be certain to do according to all that they instruct you.

You shall do according to the word of the instruction with which they instruct you and according to the judgment which they speak to you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left from the sentence that they declare to you.

And the man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Jehovah your God, or to the judge, that man shall die. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from Israel.

And all the people will hear and will fear, and they will not act presumptuously anymore.

When you enter the land which Jehovah your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it, and you say, I will set a  ¹king over me like all the nations which surround me;

You must set a king over you whom Jehovah your God will choose; from among your brothers you shall set a king over you; you may not put a foreigner, who is not your brother, over you.

However, he shall not amass  ¹horses to himself, and he shall not turn the people back to Egypt so that he may amass horses, since Jehovah has said to you, You shall never again return that way.

And he shall not amass wives to himself, so that his heart does not turn aside; nor shall he amass silver and gold to himself in great amounts.

And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write out for himself a copy of this  ¹law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.

And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, in order that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes and doing them,

So that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers and he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right or to the left; that he and his sons may extend their days over their kingdom in the midst of Israel.

The  ¹Levitical priests and the whole  ¹tribe of Levi shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat Jehovah's offerings by fire and His  ²inheritance.

Thus they shall have no inheritance in the midst of their brothers;  ¹Jehovah is their inheritance, as He has promised them.

And this shall be the  ¹priests' rightful due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: They shall give the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach.

You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your fresh oil, and the first shearing of your sheep;

For Jehovah your God has chosen him and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in Jehovah's name always.

And if a  ¹Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourns, and comes according to all his soul's desire to the place which Jehovah will choose,

He shall minister in the name of Jehovah his God, like all his brothers, the Levites, who stand there before Jehovah.

They shall eat equal portions, besides the  ¹proceeds from the sale of his father's estate.

When you enter the land which Jehovah your God is giving you, you shall not learn to do things according to the abominations of those nations.

There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through fire; anyone who performs divination, practices soothsaying, or interprets omens; or anyone who employs sorcery

Or casts spells; or anyone who consults a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit or inquires of the dead;

For everyone who does these things is an abomination to Jehovah; and on account of these abominations Jehovah your God is dispossessing them from before you.

You shall be blameless toward Jehovah your God.

For these nations whom you are dispossessing listen to those who practice soothsaying and to those who perform divination, but Jehovah your God has not allowed you to do so.

A  ¹Prophet will Jehovah your God raise up for you from your midst, from among your brothers, like me; you shall listen to Him.

This is according to all that you asked of Jehovah your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear any more of the voice of Jehovah my God, and let me not see this great fire any longer, lest I die.

And Jehovah said to me, They have done well in what they have spoken.

A Prophet will I  ¹raise up for them from the midst of their brothers like you; and I will put My words in His mouth, and He will speak to them all that I command Him.

And the man who will not listen to My words which He will speak in My name, I Myself will require it from him.

But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name, which I did not command him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.

And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken?

When a prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah and the thing does not happen nor come about, that is the thing which Jehovah has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.