New English Translation

Deuteronomy 16:4-14 New English Translation (NET)

4. There 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.

5. You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages that the Lord your God is giving you,

6. but 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.

7. You must cook and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses; you may return the next morning to your tents.

8. You 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.

9. You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain.

10. Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering that you will bring, in proportion to how he has blessed you.

11. You 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.

12. Furthermore, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful to observe these statutes.

13. You must celebrate the Festival of Temporary Shelters for seven days, at the time of the grain and grape harvest.

14. You 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.