For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord.
Parallel translations
- WEB Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
- KJV Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
- BSB For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
- NKJV Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord.
- NLT For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast. Then on the seventh day, celebrate a feast to the Lord.
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Quick answer
For seven days Israel is to eat unleavened bread, with a feast to the LORD on the seventh day.
Overview
This restates the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the week-long observance accompanying Passover. The concluding feast directs the people's attention to the LORD as the giver of deliverance. The repeated emphasis on unleavened bread keeps before Israel the haste of the exodus and the call to purity that befits a redeemed and holy people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- 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 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.
- Lev 23:8But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.’”
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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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