1   Observe the moneth of new corne, and ^note the first of the spring time, that thou mayest make the Phase to our Lord thy God: because in this moneth our Lord thy God, brought thee out of Ægypt by night.

2   And thou shalt immolate the Phase to our Lord thy God, of sheepe, and of oxen in the place, which our Lord thy God shal choose, that his name may dwel there. ^note

3   Thou shalt not eate in it leuened bread: Seuen daies shalt thou eate without leuen, the bread of affliction, because in feare didst thou come out of Ægypt: that thou mayest remember the day of thy comming out of Ægypt, al the dayes of thy life.

4   Leuened shal not appeare in al thy coastes for seuen daies, and there shal not remayne of the flesh of that which was immolated at euen the first day vntil morning.

5   Thou canst not immolate the Phase in euerie one of thy cities, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee;

6   but in the place, which our Lord thy God shal choose, that his name may dwel there: thou shalt immolate the Phase at euen at the going downe of the sunne, when thou camest out of Ægypt.

7   And thou shalt boyle, and eate it in the place, which our Lord thy God shal choose, and in the morning rysing vp thou shalt goe into thy tentes.

8   Six

Preceptes and Iudgementes. daies shalt thou eate azymes: and in the seuenth day, because it is the collection of our Lord thy God, thou shalt doe no worke. ^note

9   Seuen weekes shalt thou number thee from that day wherein thou didst put the sickle to the corne,

10   and thou shalt celebrate the festiual day of weekes to our Lord thy God, a voluntarie oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according to the blessing of our Lord thy God:

11   and thou shalt feast before our Lord thy God, thou, & thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy man seruant, and thy woman seruant, and the Leuite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and pupil and widow, which abide with you: in the place which our Lord thy God shal choose, that his name may dwel there:

12   and thou shalt remember that thou wast a seruant in Ægypt: and thou shalt keepe and doe the thinges that are commanded. ^note

13   The solemnitie also of Tabernacles thou shalt celebrate seuen daies, when thou hast gathered thy fruite of the barne floore and the presse:

14   and thou shalt feast in the festiuitie, thou, thy sonne, and thy daughter, thy man seruant and woman seruant, the Leuite also and stranger, and pupil and widow that are within thy gates.

15   Seuen daies shalt thou celebrate the feastes to our Lord thy God in the place, which our Lord shal choose: and our Lord thy God wil blesse thee in al thy fruites, and in euerie worke of thy handes, and thou shalt be in ioye.

16   Three times in a yeare shal al thy male appeare in the sight of our Lord thy God in the place which he shal choose: in the solemnitie of Azymes, in the solemnitie of weekes, and in the solemnitie of Tabernacles. There shal not appeare before our Lord any emptie:

17   but euerie one shal offer according to that he hath, according to the blessing of our Lord his God, which he shal geue him.

18   Iudges and maisters shalt thou appoynt in al thy gates, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee, in euerie of thy tribes: that they may iudge the people with iust iudgement,

19   and not decline to either part. Thou shalt not accept person, nor giftes: because that giftes blinde the eies of the wise, and change the wordes of the iust.

20    ^noteIustly shalt thou pursew that which is iust: that thou mayest liue and possesse the Land, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee.

21   Thou shalt plante no groue, nor any tree neere the altar of our Lord thy God.

22   Neither shalt thou make nor sette to thy self a statue: which thing our Lord thy God hateth.

Iudge of controuersies.

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