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Deu 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Ver. 1. **And keep the passover.** ] Every man that seeth another stricken and himself spared is still to keep a passover for himself.

Deu 16:3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, [even] the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
Ver. 3. **Even the bread of afliction.** ] Or, Of poverty; as who should say, poor folk’s bread, illleavened, ill-prepared.

Deu 16:4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there [any thing] of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
Ver. 4. **And there shall be.** ] *See Trapp on "* Exo 12:1 *"* &c

Deu 16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give [unto the LORD thy God], according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
Ver. 10. **With a tribute of a free will offering.** ] Over and besides the sacrifice appointed for the feast day, [Numbers 18:27](../../../kjv/numbers/18/27) *;* Num 18:31 and the two loaves with their sacrifices commanded. [Leviticus 23:17](../../../kjv/leviticus/23/17) *;* Lev 23:20 So good cheap is God’s service to us, over what it was to them.

Deu 16:12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
Ver. 12. **And thou shalt remember.** ] It is very good to look back and recognise our former worse condition. Agathocles, king of Sicily, being a potter’s son, would be served only in earthen vessels. Willigis, archbishop of Ments, a wheelwright’s son, hung wheels, and the tools wherewith they were made, around his bedchamber, and had these words written upon the walls in very fair characters, *Willigis, Willigis,* *recole uncle veneris,* Remember whence thou camest.

Deu 16:13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
Ver. 13. **Thou shalt observe.** ] *See Trapp on "* Exo 23:16 *"*

Deu 16:15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
Ver. 15. **Thou shalt surely rejoice.** ] *See Trapp on "* Deu 12:12 *"*

Deu 16:18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
Ver. 18. **With just judgment.** ] Heb., With judgment of justice. *Ut fiat iustitia, runt coelum.* Let heaven and earth be blended together, rather than magistrates be drawn to deal basely. It is reported by a late traveller, that in Zante, over the place of judgment, these two Latin verses are written on the wall in letters of gold: -
“ *Hic locus odit, amat, punit, conservat, honorat,*
Nequitiam, pacem, crimina, iura, bonos. ”

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Deu 16:19 *Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.*
Ver. 19. **Neither take a gift.** ] Rain is good, and ground is good; yet, *ex eorum coniunctione fit luturn,* by the mixture of those two is made dirt: so giving is kind, and taking is courteous; yet the mixing of them makes the smooth paths of justice foul and uneven.

Deu 16:20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Ver. 20. **That which is altogether just.** ] Heb., Justice, justice; that is, let pure justice, without mud, run down; let all selfish affections be strained out.

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