awl and nail his ear to the door therewith and let him be thy servant
forever, and unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise. And let it
not grieve thine eyes to let him go out from thee, for he hath been
worth a double hired servant to thee in his service six years. And the
LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest. All the firstborn
that come of thine oxen and of thy sheep that are males, thou shalt
hallow unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt do no service with the
firstborn of thy sheep: but shalt eat them before the LORD thy God year
by year in the place which the LORD hath chosen both thou and thine
household. If there be any deformity therein, whether it be lame or
blind or whatsoever evil favouredness it hath, thou shalt not offer it
unto the LORD thy God: But shalt eat it in thine own city, the unclean
and the clean indifferently, as the roe and the hart. Only eat not the
blood thereof, but pour it upon the ground as water.
Chapter .xvi.
Observe the month of Abib, and offer passover unto the LORD thy God.
For in the month of Abib, the LORD thy God brought thee out of Egypt by
night: Thou shalt therefore offer passover unto the LORD thy God, and
sheep and oxen in the place which the LORD shall choose to make his
name dwell there. Thou shalt eat no leavened bread therewith: but shalt
eat therewith the bread of tribulation seven days long. For thou camest
out of the land of Egypt in haste, that thou mayst remember the day
when thou camest out of the land of Egypt, all days of thy life. And
see that there be no leavened bread seen in all thy coasts seven days
long, and that there remain nothing of the flesh which thou hast
offered the first day at evening, until the morning. Thou mayst not
offer passover in any of thy cities which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
But in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to make his name
dwell in, there thou shalt offer Passover at evening about the going
down of the son, even in the season that thou camest out of Egypt. And
thou shalt seethe and eat {[it]} in the place which the LORD thy God
hath chosen, and depart on the morrow and get thee unto thy tent. Six
days thou shalt eat sweet bread, and the seventh day is for the people
to come together to the LORD thy God, that thou mayst do no work. Then
reckon the seven weeks, and begin to reckon the seven weeks when the
sicle beginneth in the corn, and keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD
thy God, that thou give a freewilloffering of thine hand unto the LORD
thy God according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. And rejoice
before the LORD thy God both thou, thy son, thy daughter, thy servant
and thy maid, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the
stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are among you, in the place
which the LORD thy God hath chosen to make his name dwell there. And
remember that thou was a servant in Egypt, that thou observe and do
these ordinances. Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven
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