23 Only thou shalt not eat his blood: thou shalt pour it out on the ground as water.

Chapter 16

1 Thou shalt observe the month of Abib, and thou shalt keep the Passover unto the LORD thy God, for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God hath brought thee out of Egypt by night.

2 And thou shalt sacrifice the Passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flocks and herds, in the place which the Lord shall choose, that his name may dwell therein.

3 Thou shalt not eat leavened meat with it; Seven days shalt thou eat with her unleavened bread, the bread of affliction: for thou hast gone out of the land of Egypt in haste, that thou mayest remember the day of thy departure from the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

4 Thou shalt have no leaven in all thy inheritance for seven days, neither shall there be anything of the flesh which thou didst sacrifice on the evening of the first day, that nothing shall remain until the morning.

5 Thou shalt not kill the Passover in any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God shall give thee;

6 but only in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to dwell therein his name, thou shalt sacrifice the Passover in the evening at the setting of the sun, at the same time that thou didst come out of Egypt.

7 And thou shalt bake and eat in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, and on the morrow thou shalt return, and enter into thy tents.

8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall give the feast to the Lord your God. do not engage in work.

9 Seven weeks thou shalt count unto thyself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time when the sickle appears in the harvest;

10 Then thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God, according to the diligence of thy hand, as much as thou givest, according to what the LORD thy God blesseth thee.

11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite which is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are among thee, in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell therein.

12 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and keep and do these statutes.