Deuteronomy 16:13-22

New International Version

The Festival of Tabernacles^(A)

¹³ Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor^(B) and your winepress.^{(C) 14} Be joyful^(D) at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns. ¹⁵ For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy^(E) will be complete.

¹⁶ Three times a year all your men must appear^(F) before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread,^(G) the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles.^(H) No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed:^{(I) 17} Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you.

Judges

¹⁸ Appoint judges^(J) and officials for each of your tribes in every town the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly.^{(K) 19} Do not pervert justice^(L) or show partiality.^(M) Do not accept a bribe,^(N) for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the innocent. ²⁰ Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Worshiping Other Gods

²¹ Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole^(O) beside the altar you build to the Lord your God,^{(P) 22} and do not erect a sacred stone,^(Q) for these the Lord your God hates.