Deuteronomy 16:1
16:1 Observe the month of {a} 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.

     (a) Read Exodus 13:4.

Deuteronomy 16:2
16:2 Thou shalt therefore {b} sacrifice the passover unto the
     LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which
     the LORD shall choose to place his name there.

     (b) You shall eat the Easter lamb.

Deuteronomy 16:3
16:3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt
     thou eat unleavened bread therewith, [even] the bread of
     {c} 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.

     (c) Which signified the affliction which you had in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16:5
16:5 Thou mayest {d} not sacrifice the passover within any of
     thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:

     (d) This was chiefly accomplished, when the temple was
         built.

Deuteronomy 16:6
16:6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to
     place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the {e}
     passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the
     season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

     (e) Which was instituted to remind them of their
         deliverance our of Egypt and to encourage them in the
         hope of Jesus Christ, of whom this lamb was a figure.

Deuteronomy 16:9
16:9 Seven weeks shalt thou {f} number unto thee: begin to
     number the seven weeks from [such time as] thou beginnest
     [to put] the sickle to the corn.

     (f) Beginning the next morning after the Passover,
         Leviticus 23:15, Exodus 13:4.

Deuteronomy 16:13
16:13 Thou shalt {g} observe the feast of tabernacles seven
      days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy
      wine:

      (g) That is, the 15th day of the seventh month,
          Leviticus 23:34.

Deuteronomy 16:17
16:17 Every man [shall give] as he is {h} able, according to the
      blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

      (h) According to the ability that God has given him.

Deuteronomy 16:18
16:18 {i} 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.

      (i) He gave temporary authority to the people to choose
          magistrates for themselves.

Deuteronomy 16:20
16:20 That which {k} is altogether just shalt thou follow, that
      thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy
      God giveth thee.

      (k) The magistrate must constantly follow the tenor of the
          law, and in noting decline from justice.