For 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.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- KJV Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.
- NKJV Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work on it.
- NASB For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a festive assembly to the Lord your God; you shall do no work on it.
- NLT For the next six days you may not eat any bread made with yeast. On the seventh day proclaim another holy day in honor of the Lord your God, and no work may be done on that day.
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Six days of unleavened bread were to be followed by a solemn assembly with no work on the seventh day. The feast climaxed in rest and worship before God.
Overview
The week of unleavened bread concluded with a sacred assembly and a sabbath-like cessation of labor. This rhythm of work giving way to holy rest pervades Israel's calendar. Such rest pointed beyond itself to the true rest God gives his people in Christ, who invites the weary to find rest in him.
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Cross-references · 8
- Exod 12:15–16For 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.
- Lev 23:36For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.
- Lev 23:6–8On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
- Num 28:17–19On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.
- Exod 13:6–8For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
- 2 Chr 7:9On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days, and the feast seven days more.
- Joel 1:14Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
- Neh 8:18Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.
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