In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
Parallel translations
- WEB In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.
- BSB In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
- NKJV In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
- NASB In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
- NLT The bread you eat must be made without yeast from the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month until the evening of the twenty-first day of that month.
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Quick answer
Unleavened bread is to be eaten from the evening of the fourteenth day to the evening of the twenty-first.
Overview
This verse fixes the precise dates of the feast, framing seven days of unleavened bread around the Passover. Such specificity guards the ordinance against neglect or alteration and binds the people to obedient remembrance. The careful timing reflects that God's acts of redemption occur in real history and are to be commemorated faithfully and exactly.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Lev 23:5–8In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover.
- Exod 12:15Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
- Num 28:16–25And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
- Exod 12:1–2And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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