16. Three times a year, all your males shall appear in the sight the Lord 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. No one shall appear before the Lord empty.
17. But each one shall offer according to what he will have, according to the blessing of the Lord his God, which he will give to him.
18. You shall appoint judges and magistrates at all your gates, which the Lord your God will give to you, throughout each of your tribes, so that they may judge the people with a just judgment,
19. and not so as to show favoritism to either side. You shall not accept a person's reputation, nor gifts. For gifts blind the eyes of the wise and alter the words of the just.
20. You shall justly pursue what is just, so that you may live and possess the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
21. You shall not plant a sacred grove, nor shall you plant any tree near the altar of the Lord your God;
22. you shall neither make nor set up for yourself a statue. These things the Lord your God hates."