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## Deuteronomy 16:17-20 in Context (Verses 14–22 KJV)
 
 [14 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/16/14) And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that *are* within thy gates.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/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.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/16/16) ¶ Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
 
 [17 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/16/17) Every man *shall give* as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.*
 
 [18 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/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.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/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.*
 
 [20 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/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.*
 
 [21 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/16/21) ¶ Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/16/22) Neither shalt thou set thee up *any* image; which the LORD thy God hateth.*
 
[Deuteronomy 15](/kjv/deuteronomy/15) [Deuteronomy 17](/kjv/deuteronomy/17)

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