Deuteronomychapter 16

22 verses · ASV

This chapter sends 224 cross-references outward and receives 291 — heaviest partner: Deuteronomy.

Chapter summary

The three pilgrimage feasts and the charge to judges. Passover at the place the LORD shall choose — no leaven seen within all thy coast seven days. Weeks — seven weeks from the sickle put to the standing corn; rejoicing before the LORD with household, Levite, stranger, fatherless, widow. Tabernacles — seven days from the ingathering. Three times a year all males shall appear before the LORD; none shall appear empty. ‘Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates … thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift … Justice, justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land’.

Drafted from Matthew Henry, Calvin, Gill, Clarke, JFB, and Barnes.

Context

Law · Moses — see the Deuteronomy overview for the book's full setting.

1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto Jehovah thy God; for in the month of Abib Jehovah thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

2 And thou shalt sacrifice the passover unto Jehovah thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Jehovah shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

4 And there shall be no leaven seen with thee in all thy borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which thou sacrificest the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee;

6 but at the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Jehovah thy God; thou shalt do no work therein.

9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: from the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the standing grain shalt thou begin to number seven weeks.