1 “Observe the month of Aviv, and keepPesachtoAdonaiyour God; for in the month of Aviv,Adonaiyour God brought you out of Egypt at night.
2 You are to sacrifice thePesachoffering from flock and herd toAdonaiyour God in the place whereAdonaiwill choose to have his name live.
3 You are not to eat anyhametzwith it; for seven days you are to eat with itmatzah, the bread of affliction; for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste. Thus you will remember the day you left the land of Egypt as long as you live.
4 No leaven is to be seen with you anywhere in your territory for seven days. None of the meat from your sacrifice on the first day in the evening is to remain all night until morning.
5 You may not sacrifice thePesachoffering in just any of the towns thatAdonaiyour God is giving you;
6 but at the place whereAdonaiyour God will choose to have his name live — there is where you are to sacrifice thePesachoffering, in the evening, when the sun sets, at the time of year that you came out of Egypt.
7 You are to roast it and eat it in the placeAdonaiyour God will choose; in the morning you will return and go to your tents.
8 For six days you are to eatmatzah; on the seventh day there is to be a festive assembly forAdonaiyour God; do not do any kind of work.
9 “You are to count seven weeks; you are to begin counting seven weeks from the time you first put your sickle to the standing grain.
10 You are to observe the festival ofShavu‘ot[weeks] forAdonaiyour God with a voluntary offering, which you are to give in accordance with the degree to whichAdonaiyour God has prospered you.
11 You are to rejoice in the presence ofAdonaiyour God — you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, theL’vi’imliving in your towns, and the foreigners, orphans and widows living among you — in the place whereAdonaiyour God will choose to have his name live.
12 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt; then you will keep and obey these laws.
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13 “You are to keep the festival ofSukkotfor seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing-floor and winepress.
14 Rejoice at your festival — you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, theL’vi’im, and the foreigners, orphans and widows living among you.
15 Seven days you are to keep the festival forAdonaiyour God in the placeAdonaiyour God will choose, becauseAdonaiyour God will bless you in all your crops and in all your work, so you are to be full of joy!
16 “Three times a year all your men are to appear in the presence ofAdonaiyour God in the place which he will choose — at the festival ofmatzah, at the festival ofShavu‘otand at the festival ofSukkot.They are not to show up beforeAdonaiempty-handed,
17 but every man is to give what he can, in accordance with the blessingAdonaiyour God has given you.
Haftarah Re’eh: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 54:11–55:5
B’rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Re’eh: 1 Corinthians 5:9–13; 1 Yochanan (1 John) 4:1–6
Parashah 48: Shof’tim (Judges) 16:18–21:9
18 “You are to appoint judges and officers for all your gates [in the cities]Adonaiyour God is giving you, tribe by tribe; and they are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
19 You are not to distort justice or show favoritism, and you are not to accept a bribe, for a gift blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of even the upright.
20 Justice, only justice, you must pursue; so that you will live and inherit the landAdonaiyour God is giving you.
21 “You are not to plant any sort of tree as a sacred pole beside the altar ofAdonaiyour God that you will make for yourselves.
22 Likewise, do not set up a standing-stone;Adonaiyour God hates such things.