Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread// Exodus 12:14–28; Leviticus 23:4–8; Numbers 28:16–25
1Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to Yahweh your God, because in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
2You are to offer to Yahweh your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place Yahweh will choose as a dwelling for His Name. 3You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
- DT 16:3[FORESHADOW]Exodus deliverance extended to messianic deliverance → LK 22:15-20
4No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.
5You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that Yahweh your God is giving you. 6You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place Yahweh your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt. 7And you shall roast it and eat it in the place Yahweh your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.
8For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God, and you must not do any work.
The Feast of Weeks// Numbers 28:26–31
9You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain. 10And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to Yahweh your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how Yahweh your God has blessed you, 11and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
12Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes.
The Feast of Tabernacles// Numbers 29:12–40
13You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. 14And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
15For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to Yahweh your God in the place He will choose, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.
16Three times a year all your men are to appear before Yahweh your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before Yahweh empty-handed. 17Everyone must appear with a gift as he is able, according to the blessing Yahweh your God has given you.
Judges and Justice
18You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that Yahweh your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
19Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
20Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.
Forbidden Forms of Worship
21Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for Yahweh your God, 22and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which Yahweh your God hates.
- DT 16:21[DEMONIC]Do not set up an Asherah pole or sacred pillar