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If an animal is crippled or blind or has something else wrong, do not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.

Celebrate the Passover of the Lord your God during the month of Abib, because it was during Abib that he brought you out of Egypt at night.

As the sacrifice for the Passover to the Lord your God, offer an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord will choose to be worshiped.

Do not offer the Passover sacrifice in just any town the Lord your God gives you,

Roast the meat and eat it at the place the Lord your God will choose. The next morning go back to your tents.

Eat bread made without yeast for six days. On the seventh day have a special meeting for the Lord your God, and do not work that day.

and then celebrate the Feast of Weeks for the Lord your God. Bring an offering as a special gift to him, giving to him just as he has blessed you.

Rejoice before the Lord your God at the place he will choose to be worshiped. Everybody should rejoice: you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your town, the strangers, orphans, and widows living among you.

Celebrate the Feast to the Lord your God for seven days at the place he will choose, because the Lord your God will bless all your harvest and all the work you do, and you will be completely happy.

Each of you must bring a gift that will show how much the Lord your God has blessed you.

Appoint judges and officers for your tribes in every town the Lord your God is giving you; they must judge the people fairly.

Always do what is right so that you will live and always have the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Do not set up a wooden Asherah idol next to the altar you build for the Lord your God,

and do not set up holy stone pillars. The Lord your God hates them.

If an ox or sheep has something wrong with it, do not offer it as a sacrifice to the Lord your God. He would hate that.

Some cases that come before you, such as murder, quarreling, or attack, may be too difficult to judge. Take these cases to the place the Lord your God will choose.

You must follow the decision they give you at the place the Lord your God will choose. Be careful to do everything they tell you.

The person who does not show respect for the judge or priest who is there serving the Lord your God must be put to death. You must get rid of that evil from Israel.

When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, taking it as your own and living in it, you will say, "Let's appoint a king over us like the nations all around us."

Be sure to appoint over you the king the Lord your God chooses. He must be one of your own people. Do not appoint as your king a foreigner who is not a fellow Israelite.