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Deuteronomy 16:3-11 International Children’s Bible (ICB)

3. Do not eat it with bread made with yeast. But for seven days eat bread made without yeast. This is the bread of suffering because you left Egypt in a hurry. So all your life you will remember the time you left Egypt.

4. There must be no yeast anywhere in your land for seven days. Offer the sacrifice on the evening of the first day. Eat all the meat before morning. Do not leave it overnight.

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

6. Offer it in the place he will choose to be worshiped. Offer it in the evening as the sun goes down. That is when you left Egypt.

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

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

9. Count seven weeks from the time you begin to harvest the grain.

10. Then celebrate the Feast of Weeks for the Lord your God. Bring him an offering as a special gift to him. Give to him just as he has blessed you.

11. Rejoice before the Lord your God. Rejoice 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.

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