(A)You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain. 10 Then you shall [a]celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give just as the Lord your God blesses you; 11 and you shall (B)rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and (C)the Levite who is in your [b]town, and (D)the stranger and the [c]orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name. 12 (E)You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

13 (F)You shall [d]celebrate the Feast of Booths seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat; 14 and you shall (G)rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite and the stranger and the [e]orphan and the widow who are in your [f]towns. 15 Seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.

16 (H)Three times in a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and (I)they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed. 17 Every man [g]shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 16:10 Lit perform
  2. Deuteronomy 16:11 Lit gates
  3. Deuteronomy 16:11 Or fatherless
  4. Deuteronomy 16:13 Lit perform
  5. Deuteronomy 16:14 Or fatherless
  6. Deuteronomy 16:14 Lit gates
  7. Deuteronomy 16:17 Lit according to the gift of his hand