God's Word Translation

Deuteronomy 16:8-12 God's Word Translation (GW)

8. For six days eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day hold a religious assembly dedicated to the Lord your God. Don’t do any work that day.

9. Count seven weeks from the time you start harvesting grain.

10. Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the Lord your God. Bring a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you.

11. Enjoy yourselves in the presence of the Lord your God along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites who live in your cities, the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you. Enjoy yourselves at the place the Lord your God will choose for his name to live.

12. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and obey these laws carefully.