| International Standard Version | Christian Standard Bible |
| 1"Observe the month of Abib, keeping the Passover to the LORD your God, because the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt during the night in the month of Abib. | 1"Set aside the month of Abib and observe the Passover to the LORD your God, because the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night in the month of Abib. |
| 2Then sacrifice sheep and cattle for the Passover to the LORD your God at the place where the LORD your God will choose to establish his name. | 2Sacrifice to the LORD your God a Passover animal from the herd or flock in the place where the LORD chooses to have his name dwell. |
| 3You must not eat any yeast with it. Instead, for seven days eat bread without yeast—the bread of affliction—because you left the land of Egypt in haste. Remember the day you went out of the land of Egypt for the rest of your lives. | 3Do not eat leavened bread with it. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of hardship--because you left the land of Egypt in a hurry--so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt. |
| 4Yeast is not to be seen in any of your territories for seven days. The meat is not to remain from the evening of the first day until morning. | 4No yeast is to be found anywhere in your territory for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day is to remain until morning. |
| 5"You must not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your cities that the LORD your God is about to give you. | 5You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns the LORD your God is giving you. |
| 6But at the place where your God will choose to establish his name, you are to sacrifice the Passover in the evening at dusk, at the time of day you left Egypt. | 6Sacrifice the Passover animal only at the place where the LORD your God chooses to have his name dwell. Do this in the evening as the sun sets at the same time of day you departed from Egypt. |
| 7Boil and eat the Passover meal at the place that the LORD your God will choose. In the morning you may go back to your tents. | 7You are to cook and eat it in the place the LORD your God chooses, and you are to return to your tents in the morning. |
| 8Eat bread without yeast for six days. Then on the seventh day, hold an assembly to the LORD your God. Don't do any work." | 8Eat unleavened bread for six days. On the seventh day there is to be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God; do not do any work. |
| 9"Count off seven weeks from when the sickle is first put to standing grain. | 9"You are to count seven weeks, counting the weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. |
| 10Then observe the Festival of Weeks in the presence of the LORD your God by giving your tribute and the freewill offering of your hands in proportion to the manner in which the LORD your God blessed you. | 10You are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you. |
| 11Rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God with your son, daughter, male and female slaves, the descendant of Levi who is in your city, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow among you, at the place where the LORD your God will choose to establish his name. | 11Rejoice before the LORD your God in the place where he chooses to have his name dwell--you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your city gates, as well as the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow among you. |
| 12Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, so keep and observe these statutes." | 12Remember that you were slaves in Egypt; carefully follow these statutes. |
| 13"Celebrate the Festival of Tents for seven days after you harvest from your threshing floor and your wine press. | 13"You are to celebrate the Festival of Shelters for seven days when you have gathered in everything from your threshing floor and winepress. |
| 14Rejoice in your festival—you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the descendants of Levi, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your cities. | 14Rejoice during your festival--you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, as well as the Levite, the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow within your city gates. |
| 15For seven days you are to celebrate in the presence of the LORD your God at the place where the LORD will choose; for the LORD your God will bless you in all your harvest and in everything you do, and your joy will be complete. | 15You are to hold a seven-day festival for the LORD your God in the place he chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you will have abundant joy. |
| 16"Every male must appear in the presence of the LORD your God three times a year at the place where he will choose: for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Seven Weeks, and the Festival of Tents. He must not appear in the LORD's presence empty-handed, | 16"All your males are to appear three times a year before the LORD your God in the place he chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one is to appear before the LORD empty-handed. |
| 17but each one must appear with his own gift, proportional to the blessing that the LORD your God has given you." | 17Everyone must appear with a gift suited to his means, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. |
| 18"Appoint judges and civil servants according to your tribes in all your cities that the LORD your God is about to give you, so they may judge the people impartially. | 18"Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment. |
| 19You must not twist justice, show favoritism, or take bribes, because a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the speech of the righteous. | 19Do not deny justice or show partiality to anyone. Do not accept a bribe, for it blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. |
| 20You are to pursue justice—and only justice—so you may live and possess the land that the LORD your God is about to give you." | 20Pursue justice and justice alone, so that you will live and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you. |
| 21"You are not to set up a sacred pole beside the altar of the LORD your God that you will build. | 21"Do not set up an Asherah of any kind of wood next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God, |
| 22Furthermore, you are not to erect for yourselves a sacred stone pillar, because the LORD your God detests these things. | 22and do not set up a sacred pillar; the LORD your God hates them. |
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