The Israelites who were present also observed the Passover at that time, as well as the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.
Parallel translations
- WEB The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
- KJV And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
- NKJV And the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.
- NASB And the sons of Israel who were present celebrated the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.
- NLT All the Israelites present in Jerusalem celebrated Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days.
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Quick answer
The Israelites present keep the Passover and the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread. They obey the full festival calendar God commanded.
Overview
The people observe both the Passover and the connected Feast of Unleavened Bread, exactly as the law prescribed (Exodus 12:15-20). Keeping the whole appointed observance, not just part, displays their renewed commitment to God's word. The unleavened bread, signifying a life cleansed from corruption, points to the call for believers to live in sincerity and truth (1 Corinthians 5:7-8).
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- Exod 12:15–20For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
- Exod 13:6–7For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
- Lev 23:5–8The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Exod 23:15You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.
- 1 Cor 5:7–8Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- Num 28:16–25The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- 2 Chr 30:21–23The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day, accompanied by loud instruments of praise to the LORD.
- Deut 16:8For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.
- Deut 16:3–4You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
- Exod 34:18You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
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