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Repetition of the laws on the holidays of Easter, Pentecost, Tabernacles. - The structure of the court. – It is prohibited to plant groves and place cylindrical images at the altar to the Lord. Deut.16:1. Observe the month of Aviv, and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Aviv the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt at night. Deut.16:2. And you shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, from the flocks and from the herds, in the place that the Lord will choose for His name to abide there. Deut.16:3. Do not eat leaven with it; For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of disaster, for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste, so that you may remember the day of your departure from the land of Egypt all the days of your life; Deut.16:4. You shall not have anything leavened in all your allotment for seven days, and of the meat that you sacrificed in the evening on the first day, nothing shall remain until the morning. Deut.16:5. You cannot keep the Passover in any of your dwellings that the Lord your God will give you; Deut.16:6. but only in the place that the Lord your God chooses for His name to abide there, kill the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the same time at which you left Egypt; Deut.16:7. and bake and eat in the place that the Lord your God will choose, and on the next day you may return and enter into your tents. Deut.16:8. For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the seventh day you shall keep a feast to the Lord your God; don't do work. Wed. Ref. 12:1–27, 23:15; Lev.23:4-8; Number 9:1–14, 28:16–25. Deut.16:9. Count out seven weeks for yourself; begin to count seven weeks from the time the sickle appears in the harvest; Deut.16:10. Then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God, according to the diligence of your hand, according to what you give, according to what the Lord your God blesses you with; Deut.16:11. And rejoice before the Lord your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is in your gates, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow who are among you, in the place that the Lord your God will choose for His name to dwell there. Deut.16:12. Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and observe and fulfill these statutes. Wed. Ref. 23.16, 19; Lev.23.15–21; Number 28.26–31. See example to Numbers. 28.26–31. Deut.16:13. You shall keep the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days, after you have cleared away from your threshing floor and from your winepress; Deut.16:14. and rejoice on thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, which are in thy gates; Deut.16:15. Seven days you shall celebrate the Lord your God in the place that the Lord your God will choose [that His name may be called on there]; For the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all the work of your hands, and you will only be glad. Wed. Ref. 23.16; Lev.23.33–36, 39–43; Number 29.12–38. Deut.16:16. Three times a year the whole male sex must appear before the Lord your God at the place that He chooses: on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on the Feast of Weeks, and on the Feast of Tabernacles; and no one should appear before the Lord empty-handed, Three obligatory annual meetings of Jews at the tabernacle strengthened the people's consciousness and sense of their religious-national unity. Deut.16:18. In all your dwellings which the Lord your God will give you, you shall appoint for yourself judges and overseers according to your tribes, so that they may judge the people with righteous judgment. From the book Ref. 18.13–26 it is clear that even under Rephidim, Moses appointed 1000 chiefs, 100 chiefs, 50 chiefs, 10 chiefs and clerks, who were supposed to sort out ordinary affairs and litigation among the Jews. But the division of Israel into thousands, hundreds, fifty, dozens was convenient during the wanderings in the desert, when he lived in a military-disciplined mass, and did not seem convenient later, when the people were settled throughout Canaan and Transjordan. Therefore, in view of the imminent settlement of the Jews in the land of promise, a court structure is indicated that would be more consistent with the new living conditions of the people. The appointment of judges and scribes must be applied to the settlement of Israel. According to Jewish tradition, each significant village chose seven judges, who were joined by two Levites. Deut.16:21. You shall not plant for yourself a grove of any trees at the altar of the Lord your God, which you shall make for yourself. Deut.16:22. and do not build up a pillar for yourself, which the Lord your God hates. Planting trees and placing cylindrical wooden images at altars were the custom of the pagans. You might be interested in: