Therefore, you shall keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
- KJV Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
- BSB Therefore you shall keep this statute at the appointed time year after year.
- NKJV You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
- NLT So observe the decree of this festival at the appointed time each year.
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Quick answer
Israel is to keep this ordinance at its appointed time, year after year.
Overview
The feast is to be observed faithfully and regularly 'in its season.' This rhythm of annual remembrance roots the nation's worship in God's historic act of redemption. Such faithful, recurring observance guards against forgetfulness and trains successive generations to give God the worship due for His mighty deliverance.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Exod 12:14This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
- Lev 23:6On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
- 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.
- Exod 12:24–25You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
- 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.
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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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