And the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and 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.
- BSB The Israelites who were present also observed the Passover at that time, as well as 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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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 12:15–20“‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
- Exod 13:6–7Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
- Lev 23:5–8In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- Exod 23:15You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.
- 1 Cor 5:7–8Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
- Num 28:16–25“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- 2 Chr 30:21–23The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness. The Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, singing with loud instruments to Yahweh.
- Deut 16:8Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work.
- Deut 16:3–4You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste; that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
- Exod 34:18“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 month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
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