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It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the wages of a hired worker he has served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.

And if it has any blemish, [as if it is] lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.

Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.

And you shall sacrifice the passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

You may not sacrifice the passover inside any of your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you;

but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.

And you shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents.

Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work [therein].

And you shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill-offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you:

and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male slave, and your female slave, and the Levite that is inside your gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

Seven days you shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.

Three times in a year shall all your males appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty:

every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you.

Judges and officers you shall make for yourself in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

That which is altogether just you shall follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

You shall not plant for yourself any kind of Asherah pole beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourself.

Neither shall you set up for yourself a pillar; which Yahweh your God hates.

You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is disgusting to Yahweh your God.