On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.’ ”
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“ ‘These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover. On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.’ ”
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On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.’ ”
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And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
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And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD; seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread.
In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work.
And ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days; in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work.
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- Exodus 12:15-16 (v6) “ ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened…
- Exodus 34:18 (v6) “You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the…
- Leviticus 23:8 (v7) But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.’…
- Numbers 28:18-25 (v7) In the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work, but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering…
- Deuteronomy 16:8 (v6) Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work.
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- Exodus 13:6-7 (v6) Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh. Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout…
- Leviticus 23:25 (v7) You shall do no regular work. You shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.’ ”
- Leviticus 23:35-36 (v7) On the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.…
- Numbers 28:17-18 (v6) On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days. In the first day shall be a holy…
- Acts 12:3-4 (v6) When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread. When he had arrested…
- Leviticus 23:21 (v7) You shall make proclamation on the same day that there shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall do no regular work. This is a statute…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv7–8 Or, bodily labor, save about that which one must…
Or, bodily labor, save about that which one must eat, Exod. 22:16.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv6–8 Lev 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the…
Lev 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month [is] the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
Ver. 6. Eat unleavened bread.] To teach us to eat the Christian passover, not with the "old leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." {1Co 5:8}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On v8 Seven days, the matter and manner whereof, see Num…
Seven days, the matter and manner whereof, see Num 28:18, &c.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv6–8 And on the fifteenth day of the same month…
And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord,.... Which was the day the children of Israel went out of Egypt with their dough and leaven, having not time to leaven it; in remembrance of which this feast was appointed:
seven days ye must eat unleavened bread; see Exo 12:15.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v8 Lev 23:8. Ye shall offer — unto the Lord…
Lev 23:8. Ye shall offer — unto the Lord seven days — Every day of the seven was to have a sacrifice offered upon it, about which there are particular directions, Num 28:10-25; and the first and last days of the week’s festival were to be days of universal assembly for religious duties at the place of public worship.
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv6, 8 Bread. The obligation of eating none but this sort…
Bread. The obligation of eating none but this sort of bread began at the second evening of the 14th, which was the beginning of the 15th of Nisan, Exodus xii. 6, 12. (Menochius)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv6–8 6. The feast of unleavened bread — The unleavened…
6. The feast of unleavened bread — The unleavened bread in this feast was not sacrificial, (Lev_2:4,) but monumental. Leaven was not prohibited because it was corrupt in its nature and symbolical of depravity, (Mat_16:6,) but because it was not in harmony with the historical fact commemorated by this feast — the hasty flight from Egypt. See on Exo_12:34.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv6–8 6. unleavened bread] For details, see Exo_12:15 ff.
6. unleavened bread] For details, see Exo_12:15 ff.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv6–8 (6) Seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.—See Exo_12:15;…
(6) Seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.—See Exo_12:15; Exo_12:18-20.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv6–7 The Feast of Unleavened Bread was instituted at the…
The Feast of Unleavened Bread was instituted at the same time with the Feast of the Passover, (Exo_12:15-17) and from the beginning the two festivals were practically but one festival, never separated, though separable in idea. The Passover, strictly so called, lasted but one day, Nisan 14; the Feast of Unleavened Bread lasted seven days, Nisan 15-21. The whole made a festival of eight days, called indifferently the Feast of the Passover, or the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The bread to be eaten throughout the festival was unleavened, in order to remind the Israelites of the historical fact that on account of the urgency of the Egyptians, "the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders", (Exo_12:34) and quitted the land of their affliction in haste. Accordingly, in the Book of Deuteronomy it is appointed, "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 earnest forth out of the laud of Egypt all the days of thy life". (Deu_16:3)
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On v6 The feast of Unleavened Bread, Lev 23:6-8. This feast…
bread
The feast of Unleavened Bread, Lev 23:6-8. This feast speaks of communion with Christ, the unleavened wave-loaf, in the full blessing of His redemption, and of a holy walk. The divine order here is beautiful; first redemption, then a holy walk.; 1Co 5:6-8; 2Co 7:1; Gal 5:7-9.
The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v7 The first day you must set apart to gather…
The first day you must set apart to gather together
"You must set apart the first day to gather together" or "You must treat the first day as different and gather together"
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will present a food offering
They would present it to Yahweh by burning it on the altar.
The seventh day is an assembly set apart to Yahweh
The requirement that people assemble on that day is spoken of as if that day were the assembly. Being set apart to Yahweh means that when they assemble, they must worship Yahweh. AT: "The seventh day is a day when you must assemble together to worship Yahweh" (See: Metonymy)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v6 23:6 Following Passover was the Festival of Unleavened Bread,…
23:6 Following Passover was the Festival of Unleavened Bread, during which Israel ate bread made without yeast (see study note on 2:11) to remember the Egyptian slavery that it represented and the haste with which they departed Egypt (Deut 16:3).
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