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Deuteronomy 16:11Observe the month Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in that month he brought you out of Egypt by night.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 34:18Exod 12:2-20Exod 13:4Num 28:16Lev 23:5Exod 23:15Num 9:2-5Exod 12:29-42
Deuteronomy 16:22You must sacrifice the Passover animal (from the flock or the herd) to the Lord your God in the place where he chooses to locate his name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:5Deut 12:261 Cor 5:7Luke 22:15Luke 22:8Mark 14:12Matt 26:172 Chr 35:7Deut 12:11Deut 12:14
Deuteronomy 16:33You must not eat any yeast with it; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, as symbolic of affliction, for you came out of Egypt hurriedly. You must do this so you will remember for the rest of your lives the day you came out of the land of Egypt.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:39Exod 12:19-20Exod 34:18Exod 12:8Luke 22:19Num 9:111 Cor 11:24-261 Cor 5:81 Kgs 22:271 Thess 1:6
Deuteronomy 16:44There must not be a scrap of yeast within your land for seven days, nor can any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until the next morning.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:10Exod 34:25Exod 13:7Exod 12:15Exod 12:8
Deuteronomy 16:55You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages that the Lord your God is giving you,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:5-6Deut 16:2
Deuteronomy 16:66but you must sacrifice it in the evening in the place where he chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:19-20Deut 12:5Heb 9:26Matt 26:20Exod 12:6-9Heb 1:2-3Num 9:11Num 9:3
Deuteronomy 16:77You must cook and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses; you may return the next morning to your tents.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 35:132 Kgs 23:23Deut 16:2Deut 16:6Exod 12:8-9John 11:55John 2:13John 2:23Ps 22:14-15
Deuteronomy 16:88You must eat bread made without yeast for six days. The seventh day you are to hold an assembly for the Lord your God; you must not do any work on that day.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:15-16Exod 13:6-8Lev 23:36Lev 23:6-8Num 28:17-19
Deuteronomy 16:99You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:16Exod 34:22Acts 2:12 Chr 8:13Deut 16:10Deut 16:16Lev 23:15-16Num 28:26-301 Cor 16:8Heb 2:1
Deuteronomy 16:1010Then you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering that you will bring, in proportion to how he has blessed you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 16:22 Cor 8:102 Cor 9:5-11Deut 16:16-17Hag 2:15-19Joel 2:14Lev 12:8Lev 25:26Lev 5:7Mal 3:10-11
Deuteronomy 16:1111You shall rejoice before him —you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you—in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:12Deut 12:7Deut 12:182 Cor 1:24Deut 16:14Hab 3:18Isa 64:5Isa 66:10-14Phil 4:4Rom 5:11
Deuteronomy 16:1212Furthermore, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful to observe these statutes.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 15:15Deut 16:15Eph 2:1-3Eph 2:11Lam 3:19-20Rom 6:17-18
Deuteronomy 16:1313You must celebrate the Feast of Shelters for seven days, at the time of the grain and grape harvest.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:16John 7:22 Chr 5:3Lev 23:34-36Exod 34:22Num 29:12-40Zech 14:16-182 Chr 7:8-102 Chr 8:13Deut 31:10
Deuteronomy 16:1414You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 8:9-12Deut 16:111 Thess 5:16Deut 26:11Eccl 9:7Isa 12:1-6Isa 25:6-8Isa 30:29Isa 35:10Deut 12:12
Deuteronomy 16:1515You are to celebrate the festival seven days before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, for he will bless you in all your productivity and in whatever you do; so you will indeed rejoice!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 23:36-42Deut 30:16Deut 16:10Deut 28:8-12Deut 7:13Num 29:12-38
Deuteronomy 16:1616Three times a year all your males must appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Shelters; and they must not appear before him empty-handed.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 3:9-10Ps 96:8Hag 1:9Exod 23:14-17Matt 2:11Exod 34:201 Chr 29:14-171 Chr 29:3-91 Kgs 9:25Exod 34:22-23
Deuteronomy 16:1717Every one of you must give as you are able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 9:6-72 Cor 8:12Deut 16:10Mark 12:41-44Lev 27:8Ezra 2:63
Deuteronomy 16:1818You must appoint judges and civil servants for each tribe in all your villages that the Lord your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 23:41 Chr 26:292 Chr 19:5-11Deut 1:15-17Deut 17:12Deut 17:9Deut 19:17-18Deut 21:2Exod 18:25-26Exod 21:6
Deuteronomy 16:1919You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort the words of the righteous.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 19:15Exod 23:2Prov 17:23Deut 10:17Deut 24:17Hab 1:4Deut 27:19Eccl 7:7Isa 1:17Prov 24:23
Deuteronomy 16:2020You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the Lord your God is giving you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 4:8Ezek 18:9Ezek 18:5Mic 6:8Deut 25:13-16Deut 4:1Rom 10:5
Deuteronomy 16:2121You must not plant any kind of tree as a sacred Asherah pole near the altar of the Lord your God which you build for yourself.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:32 Kgs 17:162 Kgs 21:3Exod 34:131 Kgs 14:151 Kgs 16:33Judg 3:7Deut 7:5
Deuteronomy 16:2222You must not erect a sacred pillar, a thing the Lord your God detests.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 26:1Exod 20:4Deut 12:31Jer 44:4Rev 2:15Rev 2:6Zech 8:17
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