8
Six days thou shalt eat unleavened
bread, and on the seventh day
shall be a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God; thou shalt do no work
in this.
9
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; begin to number the seven weeks from
such time as thou shalt begin
to put the sickle to the grain.
10
And thou shalt do the solemn feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God; out of the voluntary abundance of thy hand thou shalt give, according as the LORD thy God has blessed thee.
11
And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy manslave and thy maidslave and the Levite that
is within thy gates and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that
are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God has chosen to place his name there.
12
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a slave in Egypt; therefore thou shalt keep and do these statutes.
13
Thou shalt observe the solemn feast of the tabernacles seven days after thou hast gathered in
the harvest of thy threshing floor and thy winepress.
14
And thou shalt rejoice in thy solemn feast, thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy manslave and thy maidslave and the Levite
and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that
are within thy gates
(or within thy towns).
15
Seven days shalt thou celebrate a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose; because the LORD thy God shall have blessed thee in all thy fruits and in all the works of thine hands, therefore, thou shalt truly be glad.
16
Three times each year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the solemn feast of unleavened bread and in the solemn feast of weeks and in the solemn feast of the tabernacles. And they shall not appear before the LORD empty,
17
Each man with the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God, which he shall have given thee.
18
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all
the gates
of thy
cities, which the LORD thy God shall give thee throughout thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with just (and righteous) judgment.