You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt. And no one is to appear before Me empty-handed.
Parallel translations
- WEB You 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.
- KJV Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
- BSB You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.
- NKJV You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before Me empty);
- NLT First, celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast, just as I commanded you. Celebrate this festival annually at the appointed time in early spring, in the month of Abib, for that is the anniversary of your departure from Egypt. No one may appear before me without an offering.
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Quick answer
Keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in Abib, eating unleavened bread seven days, and none shall appear empty-handed. Worship remembers the exodus and brings glad offerings.
Overview
This feast, tied to Passover and the month of Israel's deliverance, commemorated the hasty departure from Egypt with bread free of leaven. The command to bring an offering reflects grateful, wholehearted worship. Unleavened bread, picturing purity, points to Christ our Passover, who calls us to sincerity and truth (1 Corinthians 5:7-8).
Cross-references & the web
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- Luke 22:7The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.
- Exod 34:20You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before me empty.
- Prov 3:9–10Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
- Deut 16:16Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.
- Num 28:16–25“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- Deut 16:1–8Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
- 2 Kgs 23:21–23The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”
- Lev 23:5–8In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- Mark 14:12On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”
- Exod 13:6–7Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
- 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.
- Exod 12:14–28This 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.
- Josh 5:10–11The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
- Lev 23:10“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:
- 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.
- Exod 12:43–49Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,
- Exod 13:4Today you go out in the month Abib.
- Num 9:2–14“Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.
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