Deuteronomy 16

1 “Observe the month of Abib, and you have made a Passover to your God YHWH, for in the month of Abib your God YHWH has brought you out of Egypt by night;

١ احْتَفِلُوا دَائِماً بِفِصْحِ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ فِي شَهْرِ أَبِيبَ (أَيْ شَهْرِ نِيسَانَ – أَبْرِيلَ)، فَفِي هَذَا الشَّهْرِ أَخْرَجَكُمُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ مِنْ مِصْرَ لَيْلاً.

2 and you have sacrificed a Passover to your God YHWH, of the flock and of the herd, in the place which YHWH chooses to cause His Name to dwell there.

٢ وَاذْبَحُوا لِلرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ غَنَماً أَوْ بَقَراً فِي الْمَوْضِعِ الَّذِي يَخْتَارُهُ الرَّبُّ لِيُحِلَّ اسْمَهُ فِيهِ.

3 You do not eat any fermented thing with it; [for] seven days you eat unleavened things with it, bread of affliction (for you have come out of the land of Egypt in haste), so that you remember the day of your coming out of the land of Egypt all [the] days of your life;

٣ لَا تَأْكُلُوهُ مَعَ خُبْزٍ مُخْتَمِرٍ، بَلْ كُلُوهُ مَعَ فَطِيرٍ طَوَالَ سَبْعَةِ أَيَّامٍ، لأَنَّ هَذَا هُوَ خُبْزُ الْمَشَقَّةِ، إِذْ إِنَّكُمْ عَلَى عَجَلٍ غَادَرْتُمْ دِيَارَ مِصْرَ، وَبِذَلِكَ تَتَذَكَّرُونَ يَوْمَ خُرُوجِكُمْ مِنْ دِيَارِ مِصْرَ كُلَّ أَيَّامِ حَيَاتِكُمْ.

4 and leaven is not seen with you in all your border [for] seven days, and there does not remain [any] of the flesh which you sacrifice at evening on the first day until morning.

٤ لَا تُبْقُوا خَمِيراً فِي أَرْضِكُمْ طَوَالَ سَبْعَةِ أَيَّامٍ، وَلا يَبِتْ شَيْءٌ مِنْ لَحْمِ حَمَلِ الْفِصْحِ الْمَذْبُوحِ فِي مَسَاءِ الْيَوْمِ الأَوَّلِ إِلَى الْغَدِ.

5 You are not able to sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which your God YHWH is giving to you,

٥ يُحْظَرُ عَلَيْكُمْ ذَبْحُ الْفِصْحِ فِي أَيٍّ مِنْ مُدُنِكُمُ الَّتِي يُوَرِّثُهَا لَكُمُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ،

6 except at the place which your God YHWH chooses to cause His Name to dwell—there you sacrifice the Passover in the evening, at the going in of the sun, the season of your coming out of Egypt;

٦ بَلْ فِي الْمَكَانِ الَّذِي يَخْتَارُهُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ لِيُحِلَّ اسْمَهُ فِيهِ تَذْبَحُونَ الْفِصْحَ فِي الْمَسَاءِ، عِنْدَ غُرُوبِ الشَّمْسِ، فِي نَفْسِ مِيعَادِ خُرُوجِكُمْ مِنْ مِصْرَ.

7 and you have cooked and eaten in the place on which your God YHWH fixes, and have turned in the morning and gone to your tents;

٧ فَتَشْوُونَهُ وَتَأْكُلُونَهُ فِي الْمَوْضِعِ الَّذِي يَخْتَارُهُ الرَّبُّ، ثُمَّ تَنْصَرِفُونَ فِي الْغَدِ كُلٌّ إِلَى خَيْمَتِهِ.

8 [for] six days you eat unleavened things, and on the seventh day [is] a restraint to your God YHWH; you do no work.

٨ سِتَّةَ أَيَّامٍ تَأْكُلُونَ فَطِيراً، وَفِي الْيَوْمِ السَّابِعِ تَتَوَقَّفُونَ عَنْ كُلِّ عَمَلٍ، وَتَحْتَفِلُونَ مُعْتَكِفِينَ لِلرَّبِّ.

9 You number seven weeks for yourself; you begin to number seven weeks from the beginning of the sickle among the standing grain,

٩ احْسِبُوا سَبْعَةَ أَسَابِيعَ مُنْذُ ابْتِدَاءِ حَصَادِ الزَّرْعِ،

10 and you have observed the Celebration of Weeks to your God YHWH, a tribute of a free-will offering of your hand, which you give as your God YHWH blesses you.

١٠ ثُمَّ احْتَفِلُوا بِعِيدِ الأَسَابِيعِ لِلرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ، حَيْثُ تُحْضِرُونَ مَا تَسْخُو بِهِ نُفُوسُكُمْ حَسَبَ مَا يُبَارِكُكُمُ الرَّبُّ بِهِ،

11 And you have rejoiced before your God YHWH, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your handmaid, and the Levite who [is] within your gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] in your midst, in the place which your God YHWH chooses to cause His Name to dwell there,

١١ فَتَحْتَفِلُونَ أَنْتُمْ وَأَبْنَاؤُكُمْ وَبَنَاتُكُمْ وَعَبِيدُكُمْ وَإِمَاؤُكُمْ، وَاللّاوِيُّونَ الْمُقِيمُونَ فِي مُدُنِكُمْ، وَالْغَرِيبُ وَالْيَتِيمُ وَالأَرْمَلَةُ الَّذِينَ بَيْنَكُمْ، لَدَى الرَّبِّ فِي الْمَوْضِعِ الَّذِي يَخْتَارُهُ لِيُحِلَّ اسْمَهُ فِيهِ.

12 and you have remembered that you have been a servant in Egypt, and have observed and done these statutes.

١٢ وَتَذَكَّرُوا أَنَّكُمْ كُنْتُمْ عَبِيداً فِي مِصْرَ، فَأَطِيعُوا هَذِهِ الْفَرَائِضَ وَاعْمَلُوا بِها.

13 You observe the Celebration of Shelters for yourself [for] seven days, in your ingathering of your threshing-floor and of your wine-vat;

١٣ وَاحْتَفِلُوا بِعِيدِ الْخِيَامِ فِي نِهَايَةِ مَوْسِمِ الْحَصَادِ، عِنْدَ جَمْعِ غَلّاتِ بَيَادِرِكُمْ وَمَعَاصِرِكُمْ،

14 and you have rejoiced in your celebration, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your handmaid, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] within your gates.

١٤ فَتَحْتَفِلُونَ بِالْعِيدِ أَنْتُمْ وَأَبْنَاؤُكُمْ وَبَنَاتُكُمْ وَإِمَاؤُكُمْ وَاللّاوِيُّونَ وَالْغَرِيبُ وَالْيَتِيمُ وَالأَرْمَلَةُ الْمُقِيمُونَ فِي مُدُنِكُمْ،

15 [For] seven days you celebrate before your God YHWH in the place which YHWH chooses, for your God YHWH blesses you in all your increase and in every work of your hands, and you have been only rejoicing.

١٥ فَتُعَيِّدُونَ لِلرَّبِّ سَبْعَةَ أَيَّامٍ فِي الْمَوْضِعِ الَّذِي يَخْتَارُهُ الرَّبُّ، لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَكُمْ يُبَارِكُ لَكُمْ مَحَاصِيلَكُمْ وَكُلَّ مَا تُنْتِجُهُ أَيْدِيكُمْ، فَيَكْمُلُ بِذَلِكَ فَرَحُكُمْ.

16 Three times in a year all of your males appear before your God YHWH in the place which He chooses: in the Celebration of Unleavened Things, and in the Celebration of Weeks, and in the Celebration of Shelters; and they do not appear before YHWH empty;

١٦ وَيَحْضُرُ جَمِيعُ ذُكُورِكُمْ ثَلاثَ مَرَّاتٍ لِلْمُثُولِ أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ فِي الْمَوْضِعِ الَّذِي يَخْتَارُهُ الرَّبُّ، وَذَلِكَ فِي عِيدِ الْفَطِيرِ وَعِيدِ الأَسَابِيعِ وَعِيدِ الْمَظَالِّ. وَإِيَّاهُمْ أَنْ يَمْثُلُوا أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ مِنْ غَيْرِ تَقْدِمَاتٍ.

17 each [gives] according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of your God YHWH, which He has given to you.

١٧ فَيُقَدِّمُ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مَا تَسْخُو بِهِ نَفْسُهُ حَسْبَمَا بَارَكَهُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُهُ.

18 You set for yourself judges and authorities within all your gates which your God YHWH is giving to you, for your tribes; and they have judged the people [with] a righteous judgment.

١٨ وَأَقِيمُوا لأَنْفُسِكُمْ قُضَاةً وَمُدَبِّرِينَ فِي جَمِيعِ الْمُدُنِ الَّتِي يُوَرِّثُكُمْ إِيَّاهَا الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ بِحَسَبِ أَسْبَاطِكُمْ فَيَقْضُوا بَيْنَ الشَّعْبِ بِالْعَدْلِ.

19 You do not turn aside judgment; you do not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

١٩ لَا تُعَوِّجُوا الْقَضَاءَ وَلا تُحَابُوا، وَلا تَقْبَلُوا رِشْوَةً، لأَنَّ الرِّشْوَةَ تُعْمِي أَبْصَارَ الْحُكَمَاءِ، وَتُعَوِّجُ أَقْوَالَ الصِّدِّيقِينَ.

20 Righteousness—you pursue righteousness, so that you live and have possessed the land which your God YHWH is giving to you.

٢٠ الْعَدْلَ وَالْعَدْلَ وَحْدَهُ أَجْرُوا، لِتَحْيَوْا وَتَمْتَلِكُوا الأَرْضَ الَّتِي يَهَبُهَا الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ لَكُمْ.

21 You do not plant an Asherah of any trees for yourself near the altar of your God YHWH, which you make for yourself,

٢١ لَا تَنْصِبُوا لأَنْفُسِكُمْ سَوَارِيَ مِنْ شَجَرٍ مَا إِلَى جِوَارِ مَذْبَحِ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمُ الَّذِي تَبْنُونَهُ لَكُمْ،

22 and you do not raise up any standing image for yourself which your God YHWH is hating.”

٢٢ وَلا تُقِيمُوا لَكُمْ أَنْصَاباً مِنْ حِجَارَةٍ لأَنَّ هَذِهِ مَكْرُوهَةٌ لَدَى الرَّبِّ.