Deuteronomy 16

1 to keep: obey [obj] month [the] Abib and to make: do Passover to/for LORD God your for in/on/with month [the] Abib to come out: send you LORD God your from Egypt night

“[Each year] honor Yahweh our God by celebrating the Passover [Festival] in the month of Abib [in early spring]. It was on a night in that month that Yahweh rescued your ancestors from Egypt.

2 and to sacrifice Passover to/for LORD God your flock and cattle in/on/with place which to choose LORD to/for to dwell name his there

[In order to celebrate that festival], go to the place that Yahweh will choose [for you to worship him], and offer [there one young animal] from your cattle or your sheep to be the Passover sacrifice, to honor Yahweh [MTY].

3 not to eat upon him leaven seven day to eat upon him unleavened bread food: bread affliction for in/on/with haste to come out: come from land: country/planet Egypt because to remember [obj] day to come out: come you from land: country/planet Egypt all day life your

[When you eat the Passover meal], the bread that you eat must not have yeast in it. You must eat this kind of bread, which will be called the bread of suffering/misery, for seven days. This is to help you to remember all during the time that you are alive that when your ancestors left Egypt, [where they were suffering because they were slaves], they left very quickly. [They did not put in yeast and wait for the dough to swell up].

4 and not to see: see to/for you leaven in/on/with all border: area your seven day and not to lodge from [the] flesh which to sacrifice in/on/with evening in/on/with day [the] first to/for morning

[During that festival], you must not have any yeast in any house in your land for seven days. Furthermore, the meat [of the animals] that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day [of the Passover Festival must be eaten during that night]; do not allow any of it to remain until the next day.

5 not be able to/for to sacrifice [obj] [the] Passover in/on/with one gate: town your which LORD God your to give: give to/for you

“To honor Yahweh our God, you must offer the Passover sacrifice only at the place that he chooses for you [to worship him]; do not offer that sacrifice in any other town in the land that Yahweh is giving to you. Offer that sacrifice when the sun is setting, at the same time of day that your ancestors [started to] leave Egypt.

6 that if: except if: except to(wards) [the] place which to choose LORD God your to/for to dwell name his there to sacrifice [obj] [the] Passover in/on/with evening like/as to come (in): (sun)set [the] sun meeting: time appointed to come out: come you from Egypt

7 and to boil and to eat in/on/with place which to choose LORD God your in/on/with him and to turn in/on/with morning and to go: went to/for tent your

Boil [the meat] and eat it at the place [of worship] that Yahweh our God chooses. The next morning, you may return to your tents.

8 six day to eat unleavened bread and in/on/with day [the] seventh assembly to/for LORD God your not to make: do work

Each day for six days the bread that you eat must have no yeast in it. On the seventh day, you must all gather to worship Yahweh our God. [It will be a day of rest]; you must not do any work on that day.”

9 seven week to recount to/for you from to profane/begin: begin sickle in/on/with standing grain to profane/begin: begin to/for to recount seven week

“[Each year], from the day that you start to harvest your grain, count seven weeks.

10 and to make: do feast Weeks to/for LORD God your payment voluntariness hand your which to give: give like/as as which to bless you LORD God your

Then, to honor Yahweh our God, celebrate the Harvest Festival. Do that by bringing to him an offering [of grain]. Yahweh has blessed you [by causing it to grow in your fields during that year]. If you had a big harvest, bring a big offering. If you had a small harvest, bring a small offering.

11 and to rejoice to/for face: before LORD God your you(m. s.) and son: child your and daughter your and servant/slave your and maidservant your and [the] Levi which in/on/with gate: town your and [the] sojourner and [the] orphan and [the] widow which in/on/with entrails: among your in/on/with place which to choose LORD God your to/for to dwell name his there

[Each married couple] should be joyful in the presence of Yahweh. Their children, their servants, the descendants of Levi [who are in that town], and the foreigners, orphans, and widows [who are living among you], should also be joyful. Bring those offerings to the place of worship that Yahweh will choose.

12 and to remember for servant/slave to be in/on/with Egypt and to keep: careful and to make: do [obj] [the] statute: decree [the] these

[“When you celebrate these festivals] by obeying these commands, remember that your ancestors were previously slaves in Egypt.”

13 feast [the] booth to make: do to/for you seven day in/on/with to gather you from threshing floor your and from wine your

“[Each year], after you have threshed all your grain and pressed [the juice from] all your grapes, you must celebrate the Festival of [Living in Temporary] Shelters for seven days.

14 and to rejoice in/on/with feast your you(m. s.) and son: child your and daughter your and servant/slave your and maidservant your and [the] Levi and [the] sojourner and [the] orphan and [the] widow which in/on/with gate: town your

[Each married couple] along with their children, their servants, the descendants of Levi [who are in that town], and the foreigners, orphans, and widows [who are living among you], should be joyful in the presence of Yahweh.

15 seven day to celebrate to/for LORD God your in/on/with place which to choose LORD for to bless you LORD God your in/on/with all produce your and in/on/with all deed: work hand your and to be surely glad

Honor Yahweh our God by celebrating this festival for seven days in the place that Yahweh chooses [for you to worship him]. You should all be joyful, because Yahweh will have blessed your harvest and all the other work that you have done.

16 three beat in/on/with year to see: see all male your with face: before LORD God your in/on/with place which to choose in/on/with feast [the] unleavened bread and in/on/with feast [the] Weeks and in/on/with feast [the] booth and not to see: see with face: before LORD emptily

“So, each year all of you Israeli men must gather [with your families] to worship Yahweh our God at the place that he will choose, [to celebrate three festivals]: The Passover Festival, the Harvest Festival, and the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters. Each of you men must bring [LIT] an offering [for Yahweh to these festivals]

17 man: anyone like/as gift hand: power his like/as blessing LORD God your which to give: give to/for you

in proportion to the blessings that Yahweh has given you [during that year].”

18 to judge and official to give: put to/for you in/on/with all gate: town your which LORD God your to give: give to/for you to/for tribe your and to judge [obj] [the] people justice: judgement righteousness

“Appoint judges and other officials throughout your tribes, in all the towns [in the land] that Yahweh our God is giving to you. They must judge people fairly/justly.

19 not to stretch justice not to recognize face: kindness and not to take: recieve bribe for [the] bribe to blind eye wise and to pervert word: case righteous

They must not judge unjustly. They must not favor one person more than another. The judges must not accept bribes, because if a judge accepts a bribe, even if he is wise and honest, it will be very difficult for him to judge fairly [IDM]; [he will do what the person who gave him the bribe wants him to do and declare that] the righteous/innocent people [must be punished].

20 righteousness righteousness to pursue because to live and to possess: take [obj] [the] land: country/planet which LORD God your to give: give to/for you

You must be completely fair and just [DOU], in order that you will enter and occupy the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you.”

21 not to plant to/for you Asherah all tree beside altar LORD God your which to make to/for you

“When you make an altar to worship Yahweh our God, do not put next to it any wooden statue [that represents] the goddess Asherah.

22 and not to arise: establish to/for you pillar which to hate LORD God your

And do not set up any [stone] pillar [to worship any idol, because] Yahweh hates them.”